Politics

An Iraqi woman votes in a previous national election. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

Iraqi commission insists that national elections will take place on time in October

Students at an Iraqi elementary school. (Photo: UNICEF)

Iraq

Iraq records more than 1.25 million births during 2020

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's top Shia leader, said on July 15, 2021 that he will not participate in planned Oct. 2021 legislative elections. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Influential Iraqi cleric Sadr says his coalition will not run in national elections

German-Kurdish singer Hozan Cane. (Photo: Social media)

Turkey

Court lifts travel ban, allowing German-Kurdish singer to leave Turkey

The aftermath of Monday night's deadly blaze that overtook a COVID-19 ward of a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah. (Photo: Reuters)

Kurdistan

Iraq's health ministry denies reports that over 90 died in hospital fire, puts official number at 60

UAE Ambassador Mohammad al-Khaja (right) cuts ribbons alongside with Israeli President Issac Herzog, July 14, 2021. (Photo: Mohammad al-Khaja/Twitter)

Middle East

UAE inaugurates embassy in Israel in latest sign of thawed relations

A photo released by Kurdistan Region counter terrorism forces shows the wreckage of one of three drones that attacked a residence in the outskirts of Erbil on June 26, 2021. (Photo: CTD)

USA

Iran tells Iraqi militias to attack US, while Pentagon affirms right of self-defense

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met Belgium’s ambassador to Iraq and Jordan, Filip Vanden Bulcke, in Erbil on July 13, 2021.

Kurdistan

PM Barzani praises Belgium’s ongoing Peshmerga support

People gather at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire overnight, in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, on July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niaza/AFP)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani extends condolences, offers aid to victims of Nasiriyah fire

A man looks around at the ravaged coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital after a massive fire engulfed it in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, July 13, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Kurdistan

KRG offers support for victims of Iraq coronavirus ward fire

Mourners gather during a mass funeral for Yezidi victims of ISIS in the disputed Iraqi district of Sinjar, Feb. 6, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Zaid al-Obeidi)

USA

US highlights ISIS danger in Iraq and Syria in report on preventing genocide

An Iraqi army soldier in Yezidi-majority town of Sinjar, Dec. 4, 2020. (Photo: Samya Kullab / AP)

Kurdistan

Yezidi commander warns of ex-ISIS members within military ranks in Sinjar

Rakan Saeed al-Jabouri, Acting Governor of Kirkuk. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

Iraqi lawmaker calls for probe into Kirkuk's acting governor

Sulaimani city. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

KRG earmarks over $1 million to build two hospitals in Sulaimani

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) meets with the new US Consul General to Erbil, Robert Palladino, July 11, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region PM receives new US Consul General in Erbil

KDP President Masoud Barzani (right) is pictured during his first meeting with Robert Palladino, the new US Consul General in Erbil, July 11, 2021. (Photo: KDP)

Kurdistan

New US envoy to Erbil meets with Kurdish leader for the first time