Exclusive-US slows transfers of Islamic State detainees to Iraq, sources say

By Ahmed Rasheed, Maya Gebeily and John Irish BAGHDAD Jan 30 (Reuters) - Transfers of Islamic State detainees from Syria to ...

Trump gets another shock: Iraq's pro-Iran majority reaffirms Maliki support despite US aid warnings

Iraq’s main Shia alliance, the Coordination Framework, reaffirmed its backing for former Prime Minister Nouri al‑Maliki on ...

The elephant in the room between Trump and oil execs: Iraq

President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting ...

‘This is what sanctions look like’: the film showing Saddam’s Iraq through children’s eyes

A film whose ingredients include eggs, flour, sugar and economic sanctions sounds improbable, but The President’s Cake takes those materials to confect a universal story of childhood and survival.

Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq

Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and ...

Trump’s Maliki message underscores Iraq’s growing strategic risk, won't back him as PM

Maliki was last in charge in 2014, when ISIS took over part of Iraq. He spent years in the wilderness before returning to the ...

Iraq’s parliament delays presidential vote again amid US pressure

In Iraq, by convention, a Shiite Muslim is prime minister, the parliament speaker is a Sunni and the largely ceremonial presidency goes to a Kurd.

U.S. special envoy for Iraq Mark Savaya no longer in the post, sources say

Mark Savaya, named by U.S. ⁠President Donald Trump as special envoy for Iraq in October, is no longer in that role, sources familiar with the move told Reuters.