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The death toll in weeks of anti-government protests in Iraq has exceeded at least 408, mostly unarmed demonstrators. A number of Iraqi protesters confirmed the presence of armed Iranian elements who participated in the suppression of the…

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Iraq on Tuesday amid a wave of anti-government protests in the Middle East and questions about their potential impact on Iranian influence in the region.

Iraqi protesters blocked all major roads leading to the center of Basra province, south of the country for the third day in a row, according to media reports also reported that closed roads are being opened to special cases such as…

Security forces opened fire on protesters in Baghdad and the south of the country, killing at least nine people and wounding dozens, police and medical sources said on Sunday, the latest violence amid unrest in Baghdad and southern cities…

Iraq's border crossing with Iran was reopened to passenger traffic on Saturday after being closed for a week at the request of Iran during mass protests in the two countries, the Iraqi border crossing authority said in a statement.

US Vice President Mike Pence visited Iraq on Saturday to reassure Iraqi Kurds of his country's support after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria drew criticism that Washington betrayed its Kurdish allies…

US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Assad air base in western Iraq, where US forces are stationed on Saturday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, during which he called Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi.

Iraqi security forces killed four protesters in Baghdad on Friday and forcibly dispersed protesters blocking the main port of Umm Qasr near Basra, while Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, said reforms were the only…

Two people were killed and 38 wounded early on Thursday after Iraqi security forces fired tear gas at protesters near two major bridges in Baghdad, security and medical sources said.