Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf (L) and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein meet in Tehran on January 18, 2026...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia` al-Sudani speaks as he inaugurates the Iraq International Qur`an Recitation and Memorization Competition in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 17, 2026...

File photo of a member of Iraqi security forces at the Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar Province in western Iraq (Photo by Reuters) The withdrawal came as part of an agreement reached between Washington and Baghdad in 2024 to wind down the US-led military coalition in Iraq by September 2025...

Baha Mousa with his wife and child. The Iraqi hotel receptionist was brutally killed by British soldiers...

Iraqi lawmakers seen before the start of the first legislative session in Baghdad, Iraq, December 29, 2025...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan attend a joint press conference in Tehran on November 30, 2025...

Iran unveils the ‘Kneel Before Iran` statue in Tehran`s Enqelab Square on November 7, 2025...

About three weeks after Iraqi foreign minister`s Ankara visit, his Turkish counterpart made a visit to Baghdad on Sunday, signaling cozying up relations between the two neighbors...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani (Photo by Tasnim news agency) The foreign ministry spokesman says Iran’s recent strikes on positions held by terrorists in neighboring countries conveyed a clear message to those who had to get it...

An aerial picture taken from a helicopter shows the US-run Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq...

Iraqi Prime Minister met with the NATO Secretary-General and discussed the issue of ending the presence of international coalition forces in Iraq, noting that the government included it in its ministerial agenda...

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations Iran’s UN envoy has defended the country’s recent anti-terror operations targeting the facilities belonging to Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Israel-linked anti-Iranian terror groups in Iraq...

Iran’s Foreign Ministry The Iranian Foreign Ministry says the strikes conducted by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) against terrorists’ positions in Syria and an Israeli espionage center in Iraq were part of the just punishment against violators of Iran’s security after a deadly terrorist attack hit the city of Kerman...

File photo of United States’ forces in Syria Amid regional outrage over the United States’ heavy support for the Israeli regime’s ongoing onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the US says its forces and their allies have been attacked at least 16 times across Iraq and neighboring Syria this month...

An aerial picture taken from a helicopter shows the US-run Ain al-Asad air base in the western Anbar desert, Iraq...

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani (file photo) Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has urged all Muslims across the world to help Palestinian people amid the Israeli regime’s relentless strikes on the Gaza Strip...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (Photo by Reuters) Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says all groups and facilities in Iraq and Syria that are affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group are legitimate targets, following a recent bomb attack on a government building in the capital Ankara...

A view of the town of Sheladize after the Turkish airstrikes, in the north of Dohuk province close to the Turkish border, Iraq June 22, 2020...

More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq’s Nineveh province that left civil defense searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday...

File photo of American military forces in Iraq Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has reiterated the Arab country’s position of rejecting the presence of foreign forces on its soil...

Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (Photo via Twitter) A major Iraqi political alliance led by influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has suspended talks with other factions for the formation of the next government, and announced a boycott of next week’s parliamentary session to elect a new president...

Iraqi soldiers man a checkpoint in the capital Baghdad on January 28, 2022, following a rocket attack on the airport...

In this file picture, US soldiers are seen during a handover ceremony of Taji military base from US-led coalition troops to Iraqi security forces in the base, north of Baghdad, Iraq...

US soldiers in Balad, Iraq, in August 2003...

Iraq’s newly-elected lawmakers attend the first parliament session, in capital Baghdad, Iraq, on January 9, 2022...

Ayatollah Khamenei addresses via video link a group of people from Qom on the occasion of a 1978 popular uprising in the holy city...

Brigadier General Esmail Qa’ani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), speaks at a ceremony in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad on January 6, 2022, in commemoration of the second martyrdom anniversary of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani...

On Saturday, the British Queen Elizabeth granted the former Prime Minister Tony Blair the Order of the Grater, the highest order of knighthood in Britain...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Photo by AFP) More than 600,000 people have signed a petition calling for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to have his knighthood removed days after Queen Elizabeth awarded him with the title despite his infamous involvement in war crimes during the US-led invasion of Iraq...

This file photo shows Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani who was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020...

The file photo shows Clinton Langston (R), British army’s most senior clergyman, speaking with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace...

Iraqi President Barham Saleh Iraqi President Barham Saleh has called on the new parliament to hold its first session on January 9, more than two months after the parliamentary elections whose results were ratified with much delay this week...

Photo shows Iraqi bombs falling on Kuwait’s oilfields during the 1990-91 invasion of the country...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) and his visiting Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein attend a joint press conference in Tehran on December 23, 2021...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi (R) and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein meet in Tehran on December 23, 2021...

A US airstrike seen on Ain al-Arab, seen from the Turkish-Syria border, October 13, 2014...

The picture shows the blood stained window of a vehicle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after a deadly motorcycle bombing on December 7, 2021...

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of an explosion in Basra, Iraq, on December 7, 2021...

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take part in an intensive security deployment after the Daesh Takfiri terrorists took over the previous day Luhaiban village in Kirkuk, December 6, 2021...

FILE PHOTO: British Airways tail fins at Heathrow Airport...

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein speaks during the 17th IISS Manama Dialogue in the Bahraini capital Manama, on November 20, 2021...

A member of Iraqi security forces inspects the site of an explosion in Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, on July 19, 2021...

Iraqi protesters hold national flags during a demonstration against last month’s election result, near an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad on November 5, 2021...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (Photo by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry website) Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has arrived in Tehran to hold wide-ranging talks on the expansion of bilateral ties, besides regional and international issues, with senior Iranian officials...

Washington extends Iraq sanction waiver so the country can continue to import energy from Iran...

In this file picture, fighters from Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units gather around the Tal Afar airport as they and Iraqi army forces advance in their campaign to drive Daesh Takfiri terrorist group out of the Iraqi city...

This file photo taken on January 18, 2021 shows an Iraqi helicopter at a military base near a border crossing with Syria at Al Qaim, Iraq...

A US solider sits on an armored vehicle in Manbij, north Syria...

The presence of Daesh in Syria at different times...

Frame grab from footage captured by bystanders shows a raging blaze that was reported by Iraqi media outlets on July 13, 2021 at a training hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah...