Delicate bargain frees 26 hostages, including Qatar royals
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and AYA BATRAWY BAGHDAD (AP) — After nearly a year and a half in captivity, Qatar on Friday secured the release of 26 hostages, including members of its ruling family, in what...
View ArticlePM announces on state TV Iraq’s war against IS has ended
BAGHDAD — After more than three years of combat operations, Iraq announced Saturday that the fight against the Islamic State group is over after the country’s security forces drove the extremists from...
View ArticlePentagon: No survivors in American helicopter crash in Iraq
BAGHDAD — All seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed, the Pentagon said Friday in a written statement. The aircraft crashed in western Iraq a day earlier, U.S....
View ArticleIraq: American troops leaving Syria cannot stay in Iraq
BAGHDAD — U.S. troops leaving Syria and heading to neighboring Iraq do not have permission to stay in the country, Iraq’s military said Tuesday as American forces continued to pull out of northern...
View ArticleMilitiamen breach U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — Angered by deadly airstrikes targeting an Iran-backed militia, dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday, smashing a...
View ArticleMilitiamen withdraw from U.S. Embassy but Iraq tensions linger
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Wednesday after two days of clashes with American security forces, but U.S.-Iran tensions remain high and...
View ArticlePentagon says U.S. airstrike killed powerful Iranian general
BAGHDAD — The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump. An airstrike killed...
View ArticleIran vows “harsh” response to U.S. killing of top general
BAGHDAD — Iran has vowed “harsh retaliation” for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad’s airport that killed Tehran’s top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions...
View ArticleIran’s allies on high alert in Trump’s final weeks in office
BAGHDAD — Iran has instructed allies across the Middle East to be on high alert and avoid provoking tensions with the U.S. that could give an outgoing Trump administration cause to launch attacks in...
View ArticleU.S. airstrike in Syria kills 1, wounds several, says Iraqi militia official
BAGHDAD — A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one fighter and wounding several others, an Iraqi militia official said Friday,...
View ArticleIntense preparations before Pope Francis meets Iraqi ayatollah
BAGHDAD — In Iraq’s holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter divisions. One is the chief pastor of the...
View ArticleBiden says U.S. combat mission in Iraq to conclude by year end
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday the U.S. combat mission in Iraq will conclude by the end of the year, an announcement that reflects the reality on the ground more than a major shift in...
View ArticleIran claims missile barrage near US consulate in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for...
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