World Mar 29, 2021
The network arises from Iraq's glacially slow bureaucracy, fractious politics, limited nonoil industry and endemic corruption.
World / Social Issues Mar 28, 2021
To hear Jewish prayer out in the open is rare now in Baghdad, where there is but one synagogue that only opens occasionally and no rabbis.
World Mar 6, 2021
Pope and top Shiite cleric plead for peace in historic Iraq meeting
The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked a landmark moment in modern religious history.
World Mar 3, 2021
Civilian contractor dead after 10 rockets hit Iraq base hosting U.S. troops
The attack on the Ain al-Assad base comes after weeks of escalating U.S.-Iran tensions on Iraqi soil, and two days before a historic visit by Pope Francis.
World | FOCUS Feb 9, 2021
In Saddam strongholds that fought America, Iraqis fear a U.S. departure
by John Davison and Ahmed Rasheed
The U.S. troop drawdown is creating a security vacuum, security officials, former fighters and residents say.
Commentary / World Jan 2, 2021
I beg your 'pardon,' Mr. Trump
by Kuni Miyake
What concerns me most about Trump's pardons are those for four former Blackwater employees convicted of shooting indiscriminately into a crowd of ordinary citizens in Baghdad in 2007.
Commentary / World Sep 10, 2020
Trump’s ‘ending’ the Iraq war is a gift to Iran
by James Stavridis
Possible bite. While there is certainly justifiable "Middle East fatigue” in the U.S. today, now is not to time to withdraw.
World Sep 9, 2020
Trump to announce U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan
The official told reporters traveling with the president to expect an announcement Wednesday on Iraq, and on Afghanistan in the coming days.
Business Aug 12, 2020
Japanese engineering company JGC Holdings Corp. said Wednesday that it has won a contract to renovate a refinery in Iraq. The deal between subsidiary JGC Corp. and the Iraqi government is worth about ¥400 billion, making it one of Japan's largest reconstruction aid programs for ...
Commentary / World Apr 8, 2020
U.S. and Iran inch toward a clash in Iraq
by Hussein Ibish
Tehran is seeking military leverage while Washington wants to capitalize on overlapping crises.
Commentary / World Apr 8, 2020
Biden’s call to ease Iran sanctions fits a bad pattern
by Bobby Ghosh
When it comes to the Middle East, the former vice president has a history of endorsing woolly and reckless ideas.
World Mar 13, 2020
U.S. bombs Iran-backed militia in Iraq after attack kills U.S. and U.K. troops
The United States waged a series of precision airstrikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26-year-old British soldier. The U.S. strikes appeared limited in scope ...