An Iraqi militia official hinted at a desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria.
Political interference had nothing to do with the dozens of 2003 cabinet papers that went missing when they were meant to be publicly released, a report has found.
South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians and pleaded with the court to urgently order a halt to the country's military operation.
How many casualties would warrant a full-blown offensive? Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the already catastrophic war in Gaza spilling across the region.
Newly unsealed government documents have revealed high-level discussions between the Howard Government and western powers prior to Australia joining the Iraq War.
A fire at a wedding in Iraq has left at least 100 people dead and 150 others injured, according to the Iraqi state news agency INA citing local authorities.
A small homemade explosive detonated on Friday near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone as an Australian diplomatic convoy made its way into the area, two security officials told The Associated Press.
A painting believed to be by Pablo Picasso and estimated to be worth millions of dollars has been found during a drugs raid in Iraq, according to authorities.
With mattresses strewn about, food trucked in and protesters playacting as lawmakers, hundreds of followers of an influential Shiite cleric were camped out Sunday inside the Iraqi parliament after toppling security walls around the building and storming in the previous day.
An Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, has been arrested and faces federal charges related to an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced.
Former US President George W Bush was left red-faced after accidentally condemning a Russian invasion of "Iraq" - the country his own White House decided to attack in 2003.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after an explosive-laden drone targeted his residence, the country's military said.
A mathematician from the University of New South Wales has found the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a small piece of clay dug up in central Iraq.
The US military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, conducted airstrikes Sunday against what it said were "facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups" near the border between Iraq and Syria.
Iraq's Interior Ministry says 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe coronavirus patients.
Australian veterans will get to keep a group honour awarded for the Afghanistan war, with new Defence Minister Peter Dutton saying only the "one per cent" who have done wrong will be punished.
Pope Francis urged Iraq's Christians to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the wrecked shells of churches and met ecstatic crowds in the community's historic heartland.
Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad on Friday to kick off the first-ever papal visit to Iraq and marking his first international trip since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi military said.
Iraqi explosives experts were working to defuse a large mine discovered on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf and evacuate its crew, authorities said Friday.
An exceptionally hot air mass is breaking maximum temperature records in the Middle East this week, with the hottest weather yet to come for some areas.
The comments by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came as the number of reported infections soared in Brazil, Iraq, India and southern and western US states, straining local hospitals.
The WHO has changed tack on face coverings and deaths in the UK have hit a grim new figure, while coronavirus-related deaths in Italy remain on the decline.
Alex Potter has treated the wounded and dying in an Iraq warzone, yet, for the young US nurse, it is coronavirus which is a far greater stress given it is a deadly danger no one can see.
Iraq has seen a spike in coronavirus cases as the holy month of Ramadan comes to an end, while New York state has recorded a 24-hour death total under 100.
A year ago today, Ivana Rapajic-Moran's world was shattered when she was told she had ovarian cancer- 17 years after losing her cameraman husband in Iraq.