Iraq
March 11, 2013
One of the organizers of an anti-government rally close to the capital has been shot and killed according to reports.
March 10, 2013
Iraqi authorities send security forces to break up demonstrators at the main rallying point for anti-government Sunni protests in Western Iraq.
March 7, 2013
United Nations special rapporteur responds to a report linking the Pentagon with Iraqi torture centres by calling on the US to release its classified documents relating to rendition.
The US poured $60 billion into unsuccessful reconstruction projects in Iraq 10 years after invading the country, an auditor's report has found.
March 5, 2013
Iraq will receive deliveries of attack helicopters and air defense systems from Russia before the start of summer, the Iraqi foreign minister said Monday.
The deal will see crude oil pipelines built between the countries.
China has overtaken the US as the world's largest net importer of oil, a report has said.
At least 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqis have been killed by gunmen in western Iraq, the defence ministry say.
March 4, 2013
Hundreds of protesters broke into Iraq's giant southern West Qurna-2 oilfield, early on Monday, sources from the field, police and the state-run Southern Oil Co. said.
A former engineer blows himself up between the two most holy shrines of Shia Islam, causing an unknown number of casualties.
March 2, 2013
Rafa al-Essawi, one of the government's few remaining Sunni minister decides to submit his resignation at an anti-government protest on Friday.
March 1, 2013
A floating restaurant packed with guests has sunk in the Tigris river, leaving at least eight people dead.
A livestock market and a police checkpoint are the targets leaving four civilians dead and a further 16 wounded.
February 28, 2013
The Lebanese songstress clarifies those rumors about her concert in Erbil that went horribly wrong.
February 27, 2013
Iraqi Airways has resumed direct flights to Kuwait on Wednesday for the first in more than quarter of a century.