A roadside bombing near Baghdad's volatile Sadr City neighborhood on Wednesday killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 20 others, an Interior Ministry official said. The incident occurred about 10:45 ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of pilgrims are in the Iraqi city of Karbala for Ashoura, the holy day on which Shiite Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s ruling Shiite Coordination Framework on Monday emphasized the importance of selecting the ...

FILE - Boys sit next to a mural of Shiite clerics Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr, left, and Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 6, 2013, painted over a portrait of former dictator ...

On his visit to Mosul on March 7, 2021, Pope Francis Pope Francis prayed for the victims of war outside the ruined centuries-old Al-Tahera (Immaculate Conception) Church — Vincenzo PINTO Grand ...

BAGHDAD — Thousands of Shiite pilgrims dressed in black marched on Saturday, heading on foot toward the golden twin-domed shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim in the northwestern Baghdad district of ...

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Shiite leaders refused to sign an interim constitution after Iraq's top Shiite cleric rejected portions of the charter, in a last-minute dispute that wrecked a planned signing ceremony ...

The new speaker must address a much-debated bill that would have the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units — an ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s National Security Agency said Friday it arrested a former high-level security official for his involvement in the 1980 execution of a prominent Shiite cleric and his sister ...