Rumors seemed to fly all day Sunday on Mideast social media channels based on unnamed US sources that a major attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone was imminent.
Moments ago a blast was reported in central Baghdad close to the fortified 'Green Zone' in the Iraqi capital. Several journalistic sources are saying the US embassy there has come under rocket attack, with regional Arabic media confirming a blast was
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu - he of the defunct "zero problems with our neighbours" doctrine - is still toeing the line that the country could not accept more than 100,000 Syrian refugees (there are already 70,000 and counting); in thi
Just days after the Iraqi parliament demanded a nationwide recount of votes - drawing calls for the election to be re-run - a storage facility housing over half of Baghdad's ballot boxes from the May election - that saw the bloc led by nationalist cl
imperialism - Through its empire of bases and global deployment of special forces, it colonized most countries worldwide, including its key EU and Asian allies.
In the same week that Tillerson earned a rebuke from Abadi's office for saying "Iranian militias in Iraq" should "go home" -- Iraq and Russia signed an expansive energy and economic protocol
Iraq - The ISIS-controlled city lies about 60 miles west of Mosul. Its earlier population declined sharply from about 200,000 to around 80,000 in 2007.
Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, we have been hit with a multiplicity of bromides, myths, falsehoods, and deceptions by U.S. officials and the mainstream media.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday to announce the city's "liberation" from the Islamic State, and to congratulate the Iraqi armed forces and people on their "victory" in the city after nearly nine months of urb
Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced May 24 that it had formally informed the United Nations Security Council of its intention to hold a referendum on the independence of Kurdistan through the UN special representative to Iraq, Jan Ku