The leading candidate to become Iraq's next prime minister, former premier Nouri al-Maliki, told AFP on Monday that he will ...

BAGHDAD — Of his countless stories of his life as a hairdresser in Iraq, the one Qaiss al-Sharaa most enjoys retelling is about the day April 9, 2003, when he watched Iraqis and American Marines pull ...

Baghdad Traders Protest New Customs Tariffs as Iraq Wrestles With Shrinking Oil Revenues BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of traders and customs clearance company owners protested in central Baghdad on Sunday, demanding that Iraq’s government reverse recently imposed customs tariffs that they say ...

Iraqi forces arrested a dealer posing as a specialist, using a sham clinic to sell drugs Dubai: Iraqi security forces have arrested a drug dealer who posed as a medical specialist and operated a fake ...

Kurdistan says Baghdad has transferred only ~41% of its owed budget since 2023, threatening salary payments, debt servicing to oil firms, and basic governance. Despite resuming limited exports via the ...

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For decades, two stalwarts have defined Baghdad’s unlikely luxury hospitality scene: the Babylon Rotana and Al Rasheed. As global brands withdrew after the 2003 invasion, these two hotels held out by ...

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, trade and religious life. However, in the 1250’s, Hulagu, brother of the ...

Baghdad was cloaked in its familiar shroud of darkness when, in early October, I walked the al-Shuhada Bridge across the Tigris—more a ritual for me than a pastime. Long before Walter Benjamin ...

A candidate for Iraq’s upcoming legislative elections was killed in the explosion of a car bomb in northern Baghdad, the capital’s security forces said Wednesday. A bomb exploded after midnight under ...

JavaScript’s low bar to entry has resulted in one of the richest programming language ecosystems in the world. This month’s report celebrates the bounty, while also highlighting a recent example of ...