Al-Qaida’s arm in Iraq has claimed responsibility for deadly raids on prisons on the outskirts of Baghdad this week that set free hundreds of prisoners, including some of its followers.

Cabinet approves revived plan for re-starting northern exports A new deal for oil and budget cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil faces significant challenges to implementation, including crippling ...

Nearly 2,000 members of The People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran have moved from Camp Ashraf in northwestern Iraq to Camp Hurriya on the deserted former U.S. military base outside Baghdad known as ...

ERBIL/SULAIMANIYA - Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil sector is under attack. The Tawke and Ain Sifni oil fields were struck by armed drones on Wednesday, after drones hit two other fields on Monday and Tuesday.

Attack on HKN-operated Sarsang field coincides with the company's signing of a preliminary upstream deal with the federal Oil Ministry.

BASRA - Ali Shaddad al-Faris, an MP from Basra MP and veteran of the Parliament Oil and Gas Committee, said the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is to blame for the ongoing stalemate in ...

SULAIMANIYA/BASRA - Over a month after Baghdad cut off critical budget support to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the crisis remains unresolved because the two sides cannot agree on an array ...

Iraqi oil exports held steady in June, averaging 3.296 million barrels per day (bpd), according to Oil Ministry data.