Following a deadly shopping center fire in Kut, Wasit, condolences have poured into Iraq from the UN, US, Turkey, and the ...

Mashhadani's comments on an "emergency government" led to the postponement of Iraq's parliament session and a move by MPs to collect signatures for his dismissal.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi presidency, premiership and parliament on Tuesday strongly condemned the recent “drone ...

Iraq’s parliament is moving forward an amendment to the country’s Personal Status Law that would allow Iraqi religious authorities, rather than state law, to govern marriage and inheritance ...

Parliament members voted by a secret ballot to elect Abdul Latif Rashid, 78, a Kurdish British-educated engineer who is a former water minister, as Iraq’s new president. Iraqi Parliament, via ...

The hearing follows a growing scandal over reports that Iranian crude is being covertly blended into Iraq’s oil exports under ...

Hundreds of angry protesters loyal to the powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke into Baghdad’s heavily protected Green Zone on Wednesday, denouncing the nomination of a new prime minister.

Many Iraqi women fear parliament will open the door to child marriages as lawmakers consider giving religious authorities more power over family law.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani met with his Turkish counterpart Numan Kurtulmus in Ankara on Tuesday, urging increased water releases into the Tigris and ...

Thousands of followers of an influential Shiite cleric breached Iraq’s parliament Saturday, the second time in a week, to protest government formation efforts led by Iran-backed groups.

Politicians behind the controversial amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law, under which girls as young as nine would be able to marry, have agreed to bring the legal age of marriage up to 15 ...

Iraqi women in parliament from across the political spectrum have joined forces to fight against passage of this amendment, just as it has been Iraqi women—and men— on the streets protesting ...