Reflections on a recent visit to Baghdad. Much has changed and ordinary life has resumed in Iraq's capital, but deep ...

Al-Maliki's order came a day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr offered to help purge militia members from Iraqi security forces. He criticized the government for denying ...

But he also criticized the Iraqi government for denying that it sent envoys to him to discuss last week's government offensive in Basra. The offensive sparked fighting between security forces in other ...

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Baghdad finds itself navigating increasingly troubled waters on the energy and, by extension, political fronts. The United States’ decision to end the exemptions that allowed Iraq to import gas from ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

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

Thousands of Syrians have poured into the streets and public squares to mark 14 years since the country’s civil war began, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the ...

New projects from Fernando Franco and Caru Alves de Souza and a clutch of auteur genre movies from young female directors.