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The death toll from an attack by gunmen on the main sit-in in Baghdad has risen to 23, including 3 policemen, while 127 others have been shot and stabbed during the attack that targeted anti-government protesters near Tahrir Square.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on political leaders to choose the new Iraqi prime minister without outside interference, saying he would have no role in choosing a successor to former prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned…

The Iraqi army announced the fall of two Katyusha rockets inside Balad air base in Iraq, and there were no reports of any casualties or damage caused by the attack, while no one claimed responsibility for the incident.

The parties organized a march towards Tahrir Square in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to support the peaceful demonstration, while the Parliament held a parliamentary session will be dedicated to discuss the elections and the electoral…

The head of the state-owned grain trading company, Hassanein al-Zubaidi, said that Iraq, a major importer of wheat in the Middle East, plans to buy 750,000 tonnes of wheat from abroad in 2020, adding that Protests across the country, which…

Five rockets landed on Tuesday inside an al-Assad base in western Anbar province, home to US troops, but no casualties were reported, an Iraqi army statement said.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said the recent violence in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah in which at least 29 people were killed was "shocking and distasteful", calling on the Iraqi government to…

Protesters burned tires and besieged a police station in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya on Saturday as pressure continued to meet their demands for sweeping reform despite the prime minister's pledge to resign.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi will resign to parliament so the members can choose a new government in response to a call to change the leadership of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, a statement from his…