Baghdad, Iraq News

Saddled with Middle East problems ranging from Iran to Syria and beyond, President Barack Obama now faces one that is both old and new: Iraq.

Iraqi worshippers during a joint Sunni-Shia Friday prayer at the Martyrs Monument in Baghdad yesterday.

Nusra's leader, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Mohamed al Jawlani, formally announced the group's allegiance to al Qaida in an audio recording last month, shortly after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, al Qaida's affiliate in Iraq, announced that Nusra and his group had joined to become the Islamic State of Iraq and ... (more)

Fridays in Iraq. Since December 21st , that's meant ongoing protests. Though there's been little interest in covering it on the part of US and other western outlets, Iraqi journalists continue to try to cover the protests.

The residents of a southern Iraqi city have to worry about more than a war and deadly militants.

British soldiers secure the area following a road side bomb which detonated as a British army patrol rolled by in the southern city of Basra, 550 kms from the capital Baghdad Through support for Israeli occupations and participation in American invasions of Muslim countries, Britain has ended up spawning tens or even hundreds of millions of ... (more)

This feature is by Teresa Fitzherbert, a student on the Magazine MA journalism course at City University London.

A total of 11 people were killed and 26 others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, the police said.

Ominous ties are emerging between skyrocketing sectarian violence in Iraq and Syria's civil war.

Mitra Singh with Emir, a retired military working dog, shortly after she adopted him in January 2012.

Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen on Thursday, police and hospital sources said, as fears mount that Iraq might slide back into bloody sectarian strife.

Two police officers say four others were wounded in the Thursday morning attack in the town of Taji.

Violence slams Iraq today. Al Jazeera notes , "Eight car bombs in mainly Shia districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed 20 people on Monday." National Iraqi News Agency reports a Mosul roadside bombing injured a police officer and civilian , 2 Basra car bombings claimed 13 lives and left fifty injured , a Samara car bombing claimed 13 lives ... (more)

This comes amid an uptick of violence across Iraq, most prominently Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife.

So Bashar al-Assad has spoken -- exclusively -- to Argentine daily El Clarin . Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made some valuable points.

Iraqi security force members gather at the site of a car bomb attack in front of a crowded popular restaurant in Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013.

Ali Karim weeps over his daughter's coffin before her burial in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, Iraq, on May 20, 2013 In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians.

UNKNOWN gunmen have shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad, security and medical officials say.

Iraqi authorities have forced another Syria-bound Iranian plane to land in Baghdad for inspection, despite Tehran's repeated protests against the move, Press TV reported.

Mourners pray over the two bodies killed in a bomb attack before their burial in the holy Shiite city of Najaf.