Hezbollah commander Sheikh Muhammad Ali Hammadi was shot dead outside his home in eastern Lebanon. The motive remains unclear ...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani congratulated US President Donald Trump on returning to the White House, while the Shiite-led Coordination Framework ignored the occasion. Instead ...

US withdrawal from Iraq may be delayed due to ISIS resurgence, despite plans for bilateral military cooperation.

Shnyar Anwar, a Kurdish lawmaker from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), confirmed no Iraqi or Kurdish leaders were ...

A well-known Moroccan activist who led protests decrying the government’s earthquake response was sentenced to prison in a ...

Under the plea deal, Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak bin 'Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi would enter guilty pleas for their role in the 9/11 attacks in return for the removal of ...

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Speaking at a memorial ceremony in Baghdad commemorating the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, former Commander of the Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, ...

Shehu Mahdi, a political commentator ... National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu and Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris have categorically dismissed the claims as unfounded.

Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and their companions were assassinated in a US drone strike authorized by then-US President ...