Iran holds tremendous sway inside Iraq despite the presence of US troops, setting up a tug-of-war for the incoming Trump administration.

Iraq and the Global Coalition Against Daesh discussed today ways to eliminate terrorist organisations.Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani affirmed during his meeting in Baghdad with General Kevin Leahy,

Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is on an official visit to Baghdad on Sunday to hold discussions with senior Iraqi officials on bilateral ties and regional and international developments.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was in Baghdad on Sunday where he met top officials and called for a joint fight against the PKK and Daesh, two

Kurdish-led authorities who run a sprawling camp for Islamic State-linked prisoners in northeast Syria are preparing the first-ever return of detainees to Syrian areas, the camp director said, a move enabled by the fall of the Assad regime.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s ministry for migration and displaced on Friday said it is set to repatriate 150 families from al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) that houses people with links to the Islamic State (ISIS).

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

Türkiye's ultimate expectation from Iraq, which declared the PKK terror group as a "banned organization," is to recognize it as a terrorist organization, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday.

Following meetings with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Baghdad, Fidan met with the president, prime minister and Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, as part of his high-level contacts in the country, according to diplomatic sources.

Once Syria's most influential minority, Alawites struggle to move on from their association with a hated dictator.

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facin

Iraq will not be negatively affected by the weakening of Iran's influence in the Middle East, Iraq's deputy parliament speaker said, with Baghdad looking to chart its own diplomatic path in the region and limit the power of armed groups.