Masoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader who first took up arms against Saddam Hussein as a teenage guerrilla, remains a towering figure in Kurdish politics as Iraq heads into its November 11 election.

Iraq halted imports of gasoline, diesel, and kerosene on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani announced in Baghdad, casting the decision as the payoff from a three-year push to expand domestic refining and move the country toward energy self-sufficiency.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has praised a Kurdish separatist group's decision to withdraw fighters from northern Iraq and Turkey

Thousands of years ago, the fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers may have been the site of the Garden of Eden. Today, climate change is making Iraq more inhospitable by the year.

Iraq's gold holdings had reached approximately 171 tons, keeping the country's worldwide standing among the top gold holders.

Cheney, the 46th vice president, died of complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said in a statement Tuesday.

Dick Cheney, a powerful vice president and a chief architect of the war in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and part of an old Republican Party guard that is quickly fading away.

Iran’s setbacks in Syria and tighter constraints on the Lebanese Hezbollah make Iraq the pivotal battleground for Tehran. November’s vote will decide whether Tehran retains leverage to benefit its network of armed groups or faces a fragmented,

Dick Cheney, a powerful vice president and a chief architect of the war in Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and part of an old Republican Party guard that is quickly fading away.