Files chart al-Qaeda’s rise in Iraq. WikiLeak documents show how al-Qaeda only gained influence in the country after the US overthrew Saddam’s government.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State militants have reduced the amount of water flowing to government-held areas in Iraq’s western Anbar province, an official said Thursday, the latest in the v… ...

Iraq's water reserves are at their lowest levels in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said on Sunday, ... which he said was mostly due to the reduced flow from the two rivers.

As Kerry held talks, Iraqi security officials said that government forces ceded control of the northern city of Tall Afar to insurgents led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

The Islamic State hold on territory has been broken, but Iraq now faces another existential threat as it battles neighboring Iran and Turkey for access to an increasingly scarce flow of water to ...

ERBIL, Iraq. The decision by Iran to halt the flow of the Little Zap River into Iraq has made the country more vulnerable to drought and desertification, an official said.