The tourism industry in Iraq is largely geared towards religious pilgrims, however, the country has much more to offer to the average tourist.

Iraq Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi has been busy meeting with regional leaders to expand the country's economic ties and promote an impartial political role in the Arab world.

Iraq has received hundreds of Islamic State (ISIS) detainees from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and is preparing to try them in Iraqi courts according to local laws.

Despite an environmental crisis, award-winning expert Azzam Alwash believes that Iraq can revive its agriculture and become the breadbasket of the Middle East.

Turkey's airstrikes, which mainly focus on the northern Iraqi countryside, have targeted positions held by the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), although civilian lives have also been lost.

Jordan is on a mission to rejuvenate trade with its neighbour, Iraq, as regional competitors scramble for footholds in the country. However, Jordanian officials have voiced their concerns about competitiveness within the export sector.

The Iraqi Central Government has begun implementing its order to remove customs checkpoints between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and other Iraqi cities. Baghdad has also added that no taxes are to be levied on the goods on their way to central and southern Iraq.

In Iraq's Kurdish region, a new generation is coming of age which has seen only two parties in power - KDP and PUK. For some of these youth, the two parties are responsible for the worsening of the economic situation in the country.

About 3 million voters were invited to choose 111 deputies, out of 673 candidates belonging to 29 political entities, in the parliament of Kurdistan.

On Sunday 30th of September, the Kurdish autonomous region held an election. Voters chose from more than 700 candidates to win 111 seats in Kurdistan’s Parliament, a year after a failed independence referendum to separate from Iraq.

An impending threat to national security could emerge sooner rather than later if serious measures are not taken to address...

As street vendors and day labourers mixed in with hundreds of others making their rush hour journeys to work on...

The powerful Hashd al-Shaabi brigades of Iraq reject calls to lay down their arms despite apparent end of war against ISIS.

The Iraqi Government's official television channel, al-Iraqiya, has begun to show news in Kurdish following the clashes with Erbil

The Kurdistan Regional Government announced that it will hold an independence referendum on 25 September 2017.

Ethnic Shabaks of Iraq are coming back to their homes after having been driven away, but they have lost trust...