Airport, which has not been operational since the group seized Mosul in 2014, will have a main terminal and VIP lounge.

Once again, he informed his command that he needed to deploy to Iraq, and after another lengthy back-and-forth, they relented once more. He packed his duffle bags and gratefully hopped onto a flight that would take him to Iraq, back to the theater of his worst nightmares and fears. He had no illusions about the trials that lay ahead.

H E WAS KILLED by an Israeli air strike in Lebanon last year. Yet the face of Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the boss of Hizbullah, is still plastered on posters all over Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Alongside them are images of other Shia militia leaders from Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. They have one thing in common: their outfits are backed by Iran.

The Iraqi Ministry of Oil confirmed that international oil corporations are increasingly looking to invest and operate in Iraqi oil fields.

Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett went on a tirade Tuesday about why Americans must spend their taxpayer dollars on a “Sesame Street” program in Iraq.

SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq, July 11 (Reuters) - Thirty Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants burned their weapons at the mouth of a cave in northern Iraq on Friday, marking a symbolic but significant step toward ending a decades-long insurgency against Turkey.

Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons.

Iraq has managed to uphold domestic stability despite regional turmoil. However, rapid expansion of spending and emerging financing constraints led to arrears accumulation in 2024. These challenges are now compounded by declining oil prices in a highly uncertain global environment,

I flew on the SilkWay Ilyushin IL-76 transporter from Baku to Erbil, Iraq. The flight involved a strong team of 5: 2 pilots, a flight engineer, a radio controller, a navigator, a loadmaster, and 2 technicians.