U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released.
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed defiance after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw support for Iraq if he returns to power.
President Donald Trump is warning Iraqi officials that the U.S. would no longer support the country if its former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, returns to power.
Members of the Iraqi security forces and displaced people are casting their ballots in early voting in the country's parliamentary election.
Iraq’s prime minister says a small group of U.S. military advisers will stay in the country to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria against the Islamic State group.
A senior official says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear he would not accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s presence at a high-level summit in Egypt.
The U.S. military has begun reducing its mission in Iraq under an agreement made with Iraqi officials last year.
Arab leaders meeting at an annual summit in Baghdad say called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Turkey's president and Iraq's prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to cooperate against security threats, including against Kurdish militants based on Iraqi territory.
Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” the statement said.
For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State group in 2017.