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Many masterpieces of Iraqi painting were looted or destroyed during the years of war, but now the country’s artistic heritage faces another threat: rampant counterfeiting and illicit trafficking. Adorning a wall of Baghdad’s modern art…

An Iraqi criminal court on Sunday sentenced to life in prison a police officer over the 2019 murder of anti-government protesters in the southern city of Nasiriyah. Nasiriyah was a center of anti-corruption protests that gripped Iraq in…

Iraq’s president on Wednesday approved a record $152 billion budget that the parliament voted on earlier this month and which adds about half a million public sector jobs. Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid ratified the budget, which has…

Iraq unveiled on Sunday a 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy, as the war-ravaged country works to recover from abroad antiquities looted from its territory. The tablet — whose text is written in cuneiform, the Babylonian…

Helped by buoyant oil prices and a period of political calm at home and in the region, Iraq appears more stable than any time since the US-led military intervention, although the government’s bid to cement gains with a budget splurge may…

Iraq urged countries on Monday to repatriate their citizens from a sprawling camp in Syria housing tens of thousands linked to the extremist Daesh group, saying it has become a “source for terrorism.” The statements were made during a…

Fifty Daesh terrorists and 168 Iraqi members of terrorist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said. Iraqi authorities “received 50 members of the Daesh from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),”…

The Semalka Border Crossing between Iraq and Syria is set to reopen on Monday after being closed since May, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday. The Semalka administration announced that work will be resumed at…

An Iraqi citizen fighting with Russia’s Wagner mercenary force was killed in Ukraine in early April, the first confirmed case of a Middle East native dying in the conflict, Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin told Reuters on Wednesday.…

Iraq’s supreme court on Tuesday ruled as unconstitutional the extended mandate of autonomous Kurdistan’s parliament, rendering invalid votes taken by the chamber since last year. It is the latest controversy between Iraq’s federal…