When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

The new Sunni leader has no template, as the century has been riddled with colonial rule, military rivalries, and then dictatorship ...

FIRST ON FOX - A group of young Iraqis launched an initiative called "Iraq Only" with the goal of having better relations with the U.S. and eliminating Iranian militias' hold over Iraq. The ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The United States has rescinded a waiver allowing Iraq to purchase electricity from Iran as part of President Donald Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Tehran ...

WASHINGTON, March 8 (Reuters) - The Trump administration rescinded a waiver on Saturday that had allowed Iraq to pay Iran for electricity, as part of President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure ...

DUBAI/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's central bank will ban five more local banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, a move that comes after meetings with U.S. Treasury officials in efforts to ...

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB” — a state “Seal on a Bedsheet.” The white banner emblazoned with the ...

But what takes years to build can collapse seemingly overnight. Iraq is the latest country in which many leaders are attempting to move out of Iran’s orbit. Last year, the Axis rapidly slid from ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s planning ministry on Monday released the official results of the country’s first nationwide census since 1987, revealing a nearly equal gender distribution and ...

The documentary, “Persecuted Christians in Iraq: An EWTN News Special,” premiered Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. Through a dialogue with Father Mazin Mattoka, president of the Monastery of the Martyrs Mar ...

Refugee groups have suggested that a British government advertising campaign targeting the Kurdish region of Iraq, warning residents not to attempt to travel to the UK to seek asylum, will be ...

Photographs show Korkor posing with the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag—the lion, sun, and crown—rather than the Islamic Republic’s emblem with its Arabic script. In the livestream of their uprising, ...