Security forces have arrested 121 “wanted individuals” in Iraq’s southeastern Maysan province, local police officials said Thursday.  Within the past week, Iraqi security forces have carried out a number of separate counter-terrorism operations. According to a police...

The Daesh terrorist group has continued to cause trouble for the Iraqi government with a recent spate of kidnappings.  Late last year, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced that Daesh’s military presence in Iraq had been all but destroyed following a destructive three-year...

The Trump administration Wednesday began dismantling the sanctions relief that was granted to Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, a step that follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the accord. The Treasury Department announced it had revoked licenses that allowed U.S.-controlled...

Iraq is to plant 70,000 date palms south of Baghdad, hoping to revive production of a crop it was famed for across the Middle East. The country once produced three-quarters of the world’s dates but now accounts for just 5 percent after it switched its economic focus to oil and after decades...