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Basra Water Crisis

HRW warns of Basra water crisis repeat

Basra Water Crisis

HRW slammed Iraqi officials as "short-sighted", saying they had not properly communicated with citizens about the emergency at the time

HRW warns of Basra water crisis repeat

HRW slammed Iraqi officials as "short-sighted", saying they had not properly communicated with citizens about the emergency at the time

Art

Visitors at Beit Tarkeeb in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood.

Iraqi group spreads tolerance and peace through art

Green Zone

Kabul residents are often trapped in their cars as helicopters travelling in and out of the Green Zone whir overhead

Kabul’s barricades raised as Baghdad’s fall

Iraqi Kurdistan

Turkey has been conducting a ground offensive and bombing campaign since May in Kurdistan's northern region to root out the PKK

Turkey strikes Iraqi Kurdistan

Turkey - Kurds

Kurdish security members stand guard near a restaurant where Turkish diplomats and Turkish consulate employee were killed in Erbil

Turkey vows 'necessary response' after diplomat killed in Iraq

Art

Visitors at Beit Tarkeeb in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood.

Iraqi group spreads tolerance and peace through art

Turkey - Kurds

Kurdish security members stand guard near a restaurant where Turkish diplomats and Turkish consulate employee were killed in Erbil

Turkey vows 'necessary response' after diplomat killed in Iraq

Iraq Politics

Iraq's former prime minister Haider al-Abadi

Iraq's former PM Abadi looking for comeback

Iraqi Kurds

Masrour Barzani, incoming Prime Minister of Kurdistan region

New Kurdish PM says priority is stronger Baghdad ties

Heritage

The Ishtar Gate at the ancient archaeological site of Babylon

UNESCO lists Iraq's Babylon as World Heritage Site

Iran Sanctions

Poster featuring Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani is seen at the Iran-Iraq border

Iraq sets up mechanism to buy Iranian gas

Mystery fires in Iraq

Iraqi farmers and other residents attempt to put out a fire that engulfed a wheat field in the northern town of Bashiqa

Mystery fires in Iraq kill dream of food self-sufficiency

Iraqi Government

A veteran of Iraqi politics and an economist by training, Abdel Mahdi, 76

Iraqi parliament approves three new ministers

Terrorism

Security forces gather at the site of the attack in Baghdad

Baghdad revises death toll in mosque bombing

Iraq - US

An Iraqi army soldier stand guard near a US-made fighter jet at the Balad Air Base

US prepares to evacuate personnel from Iraqi base

Terrorism

Iraqi security forces inspect the site of a bomb attack at a mosque in the Baladiyat neighbourhood of Baghdad

Bomb kills 7 at mosque in Baghdad

Iraqi Oil

A member of security foreign personnel stays guard next to Exxon's foreign staff and Iraqi staff of the West Qurna-1 oilfield

Exxon's $53 billion Iraq deal hit by contract snags

Pope Francis

Saleh said he hoped the visit would be "a milestone in the healing process and Iraq can once more be a peaceful land"

Baghdad sends Pope official invitation

Tensions in Gulf region

Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (C) holding talks with Iraqi officials

Kuwait, Iraq call for wisdom to avoid clashes in Gulf region

Attack on oil firms in Iraq

The attack came after two separate attacks in as many days on bases housing US military personnel in Iraq

Rocket strikes site of foreign oil firms in Iraq

Tensions in Gulf of Oman

Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah

Kuwait ruler to visit Iraq

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