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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi National Security Service (INSS) on Friday announced the arrests of five people accused ...

China's new tariffs on targeted US exports will start on Feb. 10, giving Washington and Beijing time to reach a deal that Chinese policymakers have indicated they hope to strike with Trump ...

U.S. officials are calling for peace and dialogue amid reports of "disturbing" violence in Baghdad's Green Zone on Monday after Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his withdrawal from ...

Gaddafi's son Hannibal is currently detained in Lebanon, with authorities insisting he is witholding information about Musa al-Sadr's death. In 2021, Muqtada al-Sadr announced that a committee had ...

Sources close to Iraqi militant groups have said that reports of a deal to free kidnapped Israeli academic Elizabeth Tsurkov ...

Iraqi officials have arrested five people for involvement in the execution of a prominent Shia cleric and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent.

Muqtada al-Sadr refuses to negotiate over forming the next government and is preventing the Iraqi Parliament from electing a prime minister and president. Meanwhile, his ...

Speaking at the founding conference of the Karbala Tribal Council on Saturday, al-Maliki claimed that followers of Ahl ...