Into Iraq is a story of a thousand-mile journey from Turkey through Iraq – a story about “faces glimpsed, sounds caught on the wind, tastes of dishes you’ve never eaten before,” and “words exchanged over a mug of sweet tea,” according to Michael Palin, the host of a three-part UK television series and author of a book with the same title.
Read MoreBAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of supporters of an influential Shiite cleric in Iraq rallied on August 23 in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, demanding the dissolution of parliament and early elections.
Read MoreTens of thousands of Iraqis attended a mass prayer in a Baghdad suburb on Friday called for by an influential Shiite cleric, sparking fears of instability amid a deepening political crisis that has followed the country’s national elections.
Read MoreThis year, for the first time in its centuries-long history, the lake dried up. A combination of mismanagement by local investors, government neglect and climate change has ground down its azure shores to chunks of salt. Lake Sawa is only the latest casualty in this broad country-wide struggle with water shortages that experts say is induced by climate change, including record low rainfall and back-to-back drought. The stress on water resources is driving up competition for the precious resource among businessmen, farmers and herders, with the poorest Iraqis counting among the worst hit amid the disaster.
Read MoreBAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of lawmakers who make up the biggest bloc in Iraq’s parliament resigned on Sunday amid a prolonged political impasse, plunging the divided nation into political uncertainty.
Read MoreThe Federal Integrity Commission in Iraq revealed that two seven-year prison sentences were issued in absentia against two officials in Nineveh Governorate who squandered public money.
Read MoreIn little more than a year more than 120 properties and buildings originally belonging to Christians and Sabeans, previously expropriated by force or deception by mafias or local gangs, have returned to the hands or under the control of their legitimate owners.
Read MoreThe leader of the Islamic State group killed in a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group’s videos.
Read MoreThe Islamic State group unleashed its biggest attack in Syria since the fall of its “caliphate” three years ago. More than 100 militants assaulted the main prison holding suspected extremists, sparking a battle with U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that continued 24 hours later and left dozens dead on Friday.
Read MoreThe minority Christians in Iraq want to be part of the social mainstream, but its political system continues to yield to the sectarian calls of majority Muslims, challenging both the democratic process and social integration.
Read MoreChaldean bishops in Iraq have decided to set up a Christian museum, collecting old manuscripts and books saved from destruction during the Islamic State occupation. The bishops, under the presidency of Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako, the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, made that decision during their meeting of October 23 in Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Read MoreIraqi forces have captured a deputy leader of Islamic State, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on October 11 in an announcement some interpreted as an attempt to burnish his credentials to head Iraq’s next government following early elections.
Read MoreA taut line of soldiers crossed the sprawling Army post’s parade ground in the afternoon, hoisting flags draped with a rainbow of streamers from past deployments: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Germany, France, Civil War battles and even skirmishes with Plains tribes on horseback.
Read MoreA 3,600-year-old tablet showing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh was formally handed back to Iraq by the U.S. in September.
Read MoreThe withdrawal of US troops, the fall of Kabul, and the rise to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan “reminded many Iraqis of the tragic fate of Mosul in the summer of 2014,” when the city was seized “by the Islamic State (IS),” said Fr. Paul Thabit Mekko, speaking to AsiaNews. Head of the Christian community in Karamles (Nineveh Plain), Fr. Mekko was appointed last week as coadjutor bishop of Alqosh (Iraqi Kurdistan) at the Chaldean synod.
Read MoreMinister Safeen Dizayee, head of the KRG Department of Foreign Relations, met with representatives of the Chaldean Assyrian community of America on Friday, July 9, to discuss the role of the diaspora as well as security and economic issues that are of mutual concern.
Read MoreIn September 2021, the Archdiocese of Irbil and the U.S.-based Chesterton Schools Network will launch St. Thomas Chesterton Academy, a classical Christian secondary education track for students at Mar Qardakh School in Irbil, Iraq.
Read MoreAt least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire April 24 in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, according to ministry spokesman Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna. The fire is believed to have started after oxygen tanks exploded, according to two health officials at the hospital.
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