A top aide to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was released from jail Wednesday, a source in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri ...

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Bashdar Bazyani and Sherwan Sherwan, two reporters in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, have been thrown behind bars ...

The man was said to have used his knowledge of technology to send instructional videos to ISIS members on how to hack ...

The Iraqi Railway Police (IRP) have received 300 sets of body armor from the US military. At a ceremony in downtown Baghdad, Marine Colonel Dennis Arinello presented the body armor to IRP officers ...

On Wednesday, a set of ancient artefacts stolen by illegal traffickers were returned to Iraqi authorities in a ... were handed over in the presence of police officials and Iraq’s Ambassador ...

The Iraqi government said it will file criminal charges against employees of security firm Blackwater USA who were involved a gun battle in Baghdad in which civilians were killed, an Iraqi Interior ...

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A member of the community police in Mosul, July 2020. Photo: Tahreer Association. This project seeks to contextualise internationally-backed centralised efforts to demilitarise the local Iraqi police ...