Leaders of UAE, Qatar and Oman criticise attack and urge de-escalation as EU and UN call for immediate diplomacy Middle East crisis – latest updates Countries in the Middle East and beyond responded with alarm after US strikes on Iranian...
Weakening of ‘axis of resistance’ forces leaves Iran with limited options if it chooses to retaliate Middle East crisis – latest updates Iran’s proxy militias across the Middle East have yet to retaliate for the overnight strikes against...
Unless Israel is open about its nuclear weapons and joins the non-proliferation treaty, Iran will one day have the bomb, writes Corrado Pirzio-Biroli . Plus, letters by Hubert Cassel, Dr Anthony Isaacs and Randhir Singh Bains I agree...
Greta Stocklassová’s documentary films Hans Blix, aged 97, and asks about his role in the war, WMD, and why his world of diplomacy has now disappeared At the age of 97, entirely lucid, still writing books and physically spry enough to be...
A UN working group report found engineer’s 2021 detention was in breach of international law Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian engineer Robert Pether has...
Former personnel describe soldiers exhibiting ‘psychopathic traits’ and executions of handcuffed prisoners Former UK special forces personnel have accused colleagues of committing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, including alleging...
I was there with US soldiers in 2006 and can see why the film-makers zoomed in on them so closely. But it results in glaring flaws Think back to 2006. Iraq was at the peak of its conflicts. A horrific sectarian war was raging, and...
Co-directors Alex Garland and former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza recreate a 2006 battle with almost unbearable intensity – and a dazzling ensemble cast It’s up there with the first 23 bruising minutes of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private...
Thousands go to hospital with respiratory problems after massive dust cloud blows in from Saudi Arabia Iraq was hit by its most severe sandstorm of 2025 this week, turning skies from blue to an orange haze. Visibility dropped to less...
A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it Samantha Ellis yearns to eat the nabug fruit that her Iraqi-Jewish parents recall from Baghdad back gardens. Yet when...
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film recounts the ordeal of US troops trapped in Iraq. Here, ex-Navy Seal Mendoza, who was one of the soldiers, discusses how the movie was made with his troupe of actors Five actors and one director are...
In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq Warfare , Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s assiduous new film on a single episode of the...
The country’s average temperature has risen by 0.48C a decade from 2000. Last August, photographer Susan Schulman visited Baghdad and Amarah, to capture the impact of extreme weather on everyday lives Continue reading...
Amnesty International confirms 1,518 people executed in 2024 but says real total is likely to be thousands more More people were executed in 2024 than in any other year over the past decade, mainly reflecting a huge increase in...
Arash Rakhsha’s documentary follows two Kurdish friends just about getting by smuggling goods across the mountains In an immersive and sweeping debut feature, Kurdish film-maker Arash Rakhsha portrays the plight of his people with sheer...
Before she became a mother, Samantha Ellis secretly judged other parents who let their children subsist on white bread and pesto-pasta. And when her son was born she couldn’t wait to share the Iraqi Jewish food of her ancestors....
Co-directed by Alex Garland and former soldier Ray Mendoza, this brutally accurate account of a US special forces mission gone wrong is viscerally immersive, but unaware of a point or a meaning beyond the horror There’s a brutally...
Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations Never miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time . Silicon Valley has...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi criminal court has sentenced a Russian-national terrorist to death over joining Islamic State militant group. “The Criminal Court... More The post Iraqi court sentences Russian terrorist to death over...
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi fighter jets have killed twelve Islamic State members, including a prominent leader, southwest of Kirkuk, a security source from... More The post Iraqi troops kill 12 Islamic State militants, southwest of...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two Islamic State members were arrested in an ambush by the Iraqi intelligence, after they infiltrated into the country coming... More The post Iraqi military arrests two Islamic State members after sneaking from...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led Coalition has carried out an airstrike against the border region with Iraq in Syria’s southern Hasaka in an... More The post U.S. Coalition carries out airstrike near Iraqi-Syrian borders, arrests...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was wounded in a bomb blast, southeast of Baghdad, a police source was quoted saying on Thursday. Speaking... More The post Civilian wounded in bomb blast, southeast of Baghdad appeared first on Iraq...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s ambassador to the vatican, a Kurd, has announced his intention to run for the post of president of the... More The post Iraqi ambassador to Vatican to nominate for president appeared first on Iraq news, the...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi parliament is holding an emergency session next Saturday to discuss political group’s objections to parliament elections results, according... More The post Iraqi parliament to discuss elections...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Denmark said Thursday it had pulled its special forces from Iraq after participating in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State... More The post Denmark pulls back special forces from Iraq: ministry appeared...
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Thursday repelling an attack by Islamic State militants on the borders with Syria, a... More The post Three Iraqi soldiers wounded in Islamic State attack at borders with Syria...
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki has said that Iraq aspires for a strong government and improvement to citizens’ services after... More The post Iraq aspires for strong government: Maliki tells Mcgurk appeared...