 | US strikes kill eight pro-Iran fighters in Iraq, angering BaghdadIt was the first time the United States had announced a strike on Iran-backed forces in Iraq since they launched a flurry of attacks against US targets in response to Washington's support for Israel. |
 | Iraqis haunted by war battle mental health issuesThe World Health Organization estimates that in a country of 43 million, there are just two mental health workers for every 100,000 Iraqis. |
 | EXPLAINER | How US strikes a delicate balance in responding to attacks on its forces by Iran-backed militiasThe U.S. military has struck back just three times as the Biden administration balances efforts to deter the militants without triggering a broader Middle East conflict. |
 | Nasty drought in Syria, Iraq and Iran wouldn't have happened without climate change, study findsComputer simulations didn’t find significant climate change fingerprints in the reduced rainfall, which was low but not too rare, Otto said. |
 | 21 Syrian pro-government militiamen killed in overnight ambush by IS group, reports sayThe official said the strike triggered secondary explosions, indicating the presence of weapons, but the U.S. believes that no civilians were killed. |
 | US Secretary of state Antony Blinken makes surprise visit to IraqBlinken's visit -- which came after a brief stop in Cyprus to discuss a possible maritime aid route to Gaza -- was not announced in advance for security reasons. |
 | Iraq condemns attacks on bases hosting US forcesSince Wednesday, at least five rocket and drone attacks have targeted three Iraqi military bases where American troops are stationed as part of the international coalition set up to fight the Islamic |
 | Drone attack on US troops intercepted in Iraq, heightening fears of a regional conflagrationThe salvos came at a time of increasing tension and fears of a broader regional war in the wake of the latest Hamas-Israel war. |
 | Israel-Hamas war: Thousands protest across Middle East in support of PalestiniansProtests took place across Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, where demonstrators came out in support of Palestinians amid Israeli air strikes on Gaza. |
 | Drunk Telangana man trespasses into US consulate in Iraq, jailedThe man, Ileni Srinivas Reddy, had gone to Iraq in search of employment in 2018, ever since then, he had been working as a labourer with a local firm. |
 | Fire at wedding hall in northern Iraq kills more than 100 people, injures 150Civil defense officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall's exterior as decorated with highly flammable cladding that is illegal in the country. |
 | Three dead in drone strike on Iraqi Kurdistan airfield: StatementThe drone strike targeted the Arbat airfield, south of Sulaimaniyah, from which planes used for pesticide spraying take off. |
 | US should use its influence to help win the freedom of a scholar missing in Iraq, her sister saysElizabeth Tsurkov, a 36-year-old doctoral student whose work focuses on the Middle East and specifically Syria and Iraq, disappeared in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, in March while doing research. |
 | Iraq sentences IS member to death over pilgrim bombingThe attack in the Taji district north of Baghdad targeted a "mawkeb", one of the many stalls providing free food and drinks to pilgrims during Shiite Muslim festivals. |
 | Denmark beefs up border controls after Koran burningsThe Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has also voiced "disappointment" with Sweden and Denmark for not taking action following the spate of burnings. |
 | Protesters try to storm Baghdad's Green Zone over the burning of Quran and Iraqi flag in DenmarkThe protest came two days after people angered by the planned burning of the Islamic holy book in Sweden stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad. |
 | Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad ahead of planned Quran burning in StockholmThe videos showed dozens of men climbing over the fence at the complex, with the sound of them trying to break down a front door. Another showed what appeared to be a small fire being set. |
 | Thousands protest in Iraq for second day over burning of Quran in SwedenThe protests came a day after hundreds of protesters briefly stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad. |
 | 20 years after invasion, Iraqis still waiting to come to USU.S. officials cite multiple reasons for the delays, including an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, a hack of a refugee database, the pandemic and cuts to the refugee programme. |
 | Jihadists kill three Iraq soldiers: military officialIS jihadists seized swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" which they ruled before their defeat in late 2017 by Iraqi forces backed by a US-led military coalition. |
