Pope Francis' trip to Iraq comes at a time when the country faces severe political, socioeconomic, and security challenges. The European Union's ambassador to Iraq has called Iraq's current ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -The Islamic State caliphate, which held large swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, was defeated in 2018, yet analysts are seeing signs, including a growing number of attacks in ...

Gaithe Alwahab is a JURIST staff correspondent in Iraq and a law graduate of Al Iraqia University. Here he reports from Baghdad. A version of this dispatch was originally filed as his first regular ...

Signs of Christmas are more visible than ever across Iraq this year, but the needs of its small Christian minority have been overlooked, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church has said.The ...

On the surface, Iraq appears to have achieved a measure of stability. The country finally has a functioning government after a yearlong political vacuum. Terrorist violence has fallen to its lowest ...

France welcomes the legislative elections held in Iraq on November 11. The smooth unfolding of these elections, which took place throughout the country on the scheduled date, is consistent with the ...

Iraq’s economy is gradually recovering from the twin shocks of the pandemic and collapse in oil prices in 2020. Both oil and non-oil growth are on track to reach their pre-pandemic levels as oil ...

The UN will close its assistance mission in Iraq after more than two decades, ending a presence launched following the 2003 US invasion, as Baghdad says it is now self-reliant.

Pope Francis arrived in Iraq March 5 for a three-day visit aimed at encouraging the nation's historic but diminishing Christian community amid tight security measures and worries about how the trip ...

The present U.S. focus on Syria, Turkey, and the Kurds makes it all too easy to ignore the growing instability of Iraq, the fact that ISIS is already increasing its operations in that country, and ...

Politicians have failed to form a new government nearly a year after the last elections. Baghdad just saw its worst militia clashes in years. And despite vast oil wealth, the state can’t provide basic ...