KARACHI: The Government of Iraq has cancelled the special permission granted to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) for operating flights to Najaf and Baghdad for carrying the pilgrims of Arbaeen. PIA on Monday announced that its scheduled flights to these holy cities in Iraq will be cancelled ...

TEHRAN: Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said their political blocs would enter into an alliance, bringing Iraq one step closer to forming a new government after an election marred by low turnout and fraud allegations. The alliance between Abadi’s Victory Alliance, ...

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government condemned Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq Tuesday in which forces from the autonomous Kurdistan region were killed in an apparent accident. "The Iraqi government condemns and rejects the strikes carried out by Turkish aircraft on Iraqi territory," spokesman Saad ...

MOSUL, IRAQ: Iraqi government forces killed the Islamic State commander of Mosul’s Old City on Tuesday as the battle for the militants’ last stronghold in Iraq focused on a bridge crossing the Tigris river.As fighting intensified on Tuesday after the previous day’s heavy rains, civilians ...