Anti-government protesters blocked access to a second major commercial port in southern Iraq on Tuesday, as bridge closures effectively split the capital in half, causing citizens to rely on boats to reach the other side of the city.
Read moreHundreds of leaked Iranian intelligence reports reveal the depth of Tehran’s influence in neighboring, protest-torn Iraq, The New York Times and The Intercept reported Monday.
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Iraq’s most powerful Shiite religious leader said Monday he backs a U.N. roadmap aimed at meeting the demands of anti-government protesters who have been rallying for weeks despite a bloody crackdown by security forces, but he expressed concern that political parties would not carry them out.
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The United Nations mission for Iraq on Sunday proposed a roadmap out of the country’s social upheaval, while Amnesty International said Iraq’s crackdown on anti-government protests has descended into a “bloodbath.”
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Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens. A medic was killed while aiding demonstrators.
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At least three anti-government protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Iraq, officials said Tuesday, as authorities tried to reopen the country’s main port, which demonstrators had blocked for three days.
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Anti-government protesters crossed a major bridge in Baghdad on Monday, approaching the prime minister’s office and the headquarters of Iraq’s state-run TV, and security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas, killing at least five demonstrators and wounding dozens.
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Iraq’s president on Thursday called for the drafting of a new election law and said he would approve early elections once it is enacted, bowing to anti-government protesters though insisting that the sweeping changes they demand be carried out in a constitutional way.
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Two rockets were fired into Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Wednesday, killing one Iraqi soldier and adding to the violence gripping the country amid unprecedented anti-government protests and a violent security crackdown.
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Masked gunmen opened fire at Iraqi protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds, security officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on protesters since anti-government demonstrations erupted this month.
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday as chaos swirled on the Turkey-Syria border and Iraqi leaders chafed over reports that the United States may want to increase the number of troops based in Iraq, at least temporarily.
Read moreThe U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands said the Dutch government should work with the Trump administration to bring Islamic State fighters back to their home country instead of holding trials in Iraq.
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While President Donald Trump insists he’s bringing home Americans from “endless wars” in the Mideast, his Pentagon chief says all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the U.S. military will continue operations against the Islamic State group.
Read moreIraqi government and security forces are “responsible for the bloodshed” during recent protests, top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said Friday.
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Twelve anti-government demonstrators were killed Sunday in ongoing protests in the capital Baghdad, the latest fatalities in six days of clashes that have left more than 100 dead and thousands wounded.
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Iraq’s premier on Friday urged anti-government protesters to go home, saying their “legitimate demands” have been heard and comparing security measures imposed in the wake of this week’s demonstrations to “bitter medicine” that needs to be swallowed as the death toll from the violence rose to 42.
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Iraqi security forces fired live bullets and tear gas at protesters in Baghdad on Thursday, despite a curfew in the Iraqi capital amid deadly violence gripping the country and anti-government protests that killed 19 people this week.
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As the United States and Israel escalate their push to contain Iranian influence in the Middle East, countries in Tehran’s orbit are feeling the heat — particularly in Iraq.
Read moreA federal judge resentenced three former Blackwater security contractors Thursday to more than a decade in prison for their role in a 2007 shooting in Baghdad in which dozens of unarmed Iraqis were gunned down.
Read moreThe British Museum said Friday it had returned to Iraq a collection of 156 cuneiform tablets believed to have been looted following the U.S.-led invasion of the country.
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