Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Iraqi girl poses with an ink-marked index finger at a polling station in the southern city of Basra during the historic Iraq ...

Iraq is in the midst of a parliamentary election this week, a vote at a critical juncture for the nation and the wider region. The vote began on Sunday with polling for members of the security forces ...

Iraqi politics is in a crisis. Months after an election, there is still no new premier or president. Political parties cannot agree on whom to appoint. Notably, US opposition to Nouri al-Maliki, a ...

Iraq is seeing its longest period of stability in years and Iraqis are confident of the direction their country is going. Will the positivity affect voter turnout in the general elections in November?

President Donald Trump offered congratulations to Iraq’s new Prime Minister, Ali al-Zaidi, for a resounding election victory ...

BAGHDAD — Iraqis were voting on Tuesday in a parliamentary election that comes at a crucial moment for the country and the region. The outcome of the vote will influence whether Prime Minister ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani (Right) “casts his vote in the 2025 Council of Representatives elections at one of the polling centers in the capital Baghdad.” (Iraq Prime Minister’s ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East's most delicate moments in years. While the ceasefire in Gaza may have tamped ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years. Today in History: July 21, Bosnian war ...

Outside one of Baghdad’s top universities, throngs of young women in niqabs gather. The walls behind them are plastered with posters of militia fighters. Among them is Qais al-Khazali, who heads one ...

Iraq’s election has been closely watched from way beyond its borders, as the young democracy finds itself in a power struggle between the US, Israel and Iran. The parliamentary vote, the seventh since ...