In late July, Iraq’s long and difficult path to stability was interrupted again when fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces stormed a Ministry of Agriculture building in Baghdad. The raid was ...

KESSARRAT, Iraq (AP) — Ali Ahsan paced back and forth carrying a rifle more than half his height in the searing heat as his militia convoy made a pit stop in the Anbar desert to rest and pray. Unlike ...

The clash broke out in Baghdad's Karkh district after a group of fighters from the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) stormed a government building. A gun battle erupted in Iraq's capital of Baghdad on ...

Iranian-backed militias are seeking to benefit from the clashes between the Syrian transitional government and the Syrian Democratic Forces. The US backed the SDF in the war against ISIS. In clashes ...

With Iranian influence waning in the Middle East, the Iraqi government wants armed groups, including factions within the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), to lay down their arms and join ...

Falih al Fayyadh (far right), the chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (center) (Tasnim on X). Iranian state media appeared to downplay ...

After a U.S. occupation, years of sectarian violence and a jihadist insurgency, Iraq has become an improbable haven of calm in the Middle East. By Erika Solomon Kataib Hezbollah, a hard-line Iraqi ...

In late July, Iraq's long and difficult path to stability was interrupted again when fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces stormed a Ministry of Agriculture building in Baghdad. The raid was ...