As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an in ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Turkey has been rapidly expanding its military deployment in northern Iraq ever since the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK declared ceasefire early last month. Watch in for more details!

Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer ...

The Forbidden Zone spans almost the entire length of the Iraqi border with Turkey and is up to 40km (25 miles) deep in places ...

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A large-scale security operation has been launched in the Hamrin mountain range, northeast of Al Azim area in northeastern Iraq. Diyala Operations Command Commander Talib Al Musawi said that ...

Turkey is in talks to look for oil and gas in Bulgaria, and is also planning exploration work in Iraq and Libya, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said. State-run Turkiye Petrolleri AO will ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey has imposed a ban on elective Caesarian-section births at private healthcare facilities without a medical justification under new health ministry regulations published ...

Turkey on Sunday condoled with Iraq over a fire incident that killed at least 82 people and injured 110 others in Baghdad. We are saddened at the loss of lives due to an explosion and a consequent ...

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Saturday received Fuad Mohammed Hussein, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq, who delivered an ...

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