Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it used ballistic missiles to destroy an Israeli spy site in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdistan region, according to state media, amid escalating tensions in the Middle East. The Revolutionary Guard Corps said through its media arm early Tuesday local time that the … Read more
BAGHDAD — Baghdad’s streets were nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first provincial elections in a decade, which are boycotted by an influential political bloc and marred by scattered violence and allegations of irregularities. The vote to select new provincial council members, who in turn will appoint governors, is … Read more
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s top court ruled Tuesday that the speaker and a rival lawmaker should be ousted from Parliament, following a high-profile feud between the two men. The Federal Supreme Court said in a statement it decided to terminate Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi’s membership in Parliament along with that of lawmaker Laith al-Dulaimi. It did not … Read more
STORY: Steven Nabil is cradling a picture of his fiancé, one of over a hundred people killed in the huge fire that swept through a wedding hall in Iraq last month. He was working as a DJ there. He stepped outside for a break when the disaster happened. On Sunday, Iraq’s interior minister announced that … Read more