Complicating matters further is the city’s location, about 40 miles south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, and the presence of Turkmen paramilitary groups called the Popular Mobilization Forces.

In Iraq city block filled with families of Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites and Christians band together through the chaos and calm of living in Baghdad.

A statement by Iraq’s parliamentary committee on human rights last Thursday called the humanitarian crisis “acute.” By the time the government lifted the vehicular ban in Shula about a week ago and ...

In this video, we explore the incredible hospitality of the Iraqi people during our visit to Baghdad. We highlight ...

The pilgrims often arrive tired and hungry, having walked up to 400km across Iraq, from places such as capital city Baghdad or the oil-rich southern city of Basra.

A sprawling 3,400-year-old city emerged in Iraq after a reservoir’s water level swiftly dropped due to extreme drought. Kurdish and German archaeologists excavated the settlement in the Mosul ...

Insurgents take Mosul as Iraqi army collapses 02:11. BAGHDAD -- Islamic militants overran parts of Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul on Tuesday, driving security forces from their posts and ...

Sadr City residents have come in droves to Baghdad’s protests, driven by anger at the Iraq government’s neglect and fueled by their long history of defiance. By Alissa J. Rubin SADR CITY, Iraq ...

Gaze over the road circling the Iraqi city of Najaf's compact center and it's clear that this spiritual capital of Shiite Islam is ... Iraq's City of Death. Published Jun 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM ...

Iraq's Walled City. William Langewiesche, the author of "The Green Zone," on the dangerous and ever-increasing isolation of the American presence in Baghdad. By Elizabeth Shelburne.

More recently, Saddam Hussein recruited some of his regime’s most ruthless officers from Fallujah. Even though it was a quieter city than most in Iraq after the American invasion in 2003, with less ...

The walls of the Imam Abbas shrine in Iraq’s holy city of Karbala seemed to heave and sway with the boisterous, devoted crowd. By holding onto a rope, ushers partitioned a makeshift runway from ...