BAGHDAD( Reuters)-Iraqi populist Shi' ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Friday that he and

DUBAI( Reuters)-Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad al-Hakeem, one of Iraq's most senior Shi' ite

BAGHDAD( Reuters)-Powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr urged the country's paramilitaries on

BAGHDAD( Reuters)-Iraq's Supreme Federal Court has ruled that former foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari is not eligible to run for the presidency amid corruption allegations, the state news agency reported on Sunday, a move that prolongs a political standoff. Zebari, a prominent Kurdish politician who served as Iraq's foreign minister for more than a decade, called the court's decision" an injustice".... He was finance minister when he was sacked by parliament in 2016 over alleged corruption....

" The Iran-backed side wouldn't allow it.... There would be fighting," he said. Fractures have also hit Iraq's northern Sunni provinces and in its autonomous Kurdistan region.... "( Reporting by John Davison in Nassiriya and Ahmed Rasheed in Baghdad; Editing by Giles Elgood)....

BAGHDAD( Reuters)-Iraqi state television aired a video on Friday in which a police officer said he

Former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law group won 33 seats, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party( KDP) secured 31, according to the results cited by state media. The results were broadly in line with preliminary figures released in the days after the Oct.... Pro-Iran groups who performed poorly have refused to accept the results. Turnout reached 44%, the commission said, revised up from the 43% preliminary figure but still lower than in the last election in 2018. More than 9.6 millio

An Iraqi elderly woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote inside a polling station

this week by a fire at a COVID-19 hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, the second such

election spoils while pro-reform activists are gunned down in the streets." The Iraqi state is not in