One of Iraq’s two vice-presidents has vetoed part of the country’s new election law, putting the parliamentary polls scheduled for January in doubt. Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Arab, revoked Article 1 of the law and called for the...

Reporting from Baghdad and Ramadi, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Tuesday in a crowded residential area in the western Iraqi town of Amiriya, killing at least 11 people and wounding 31, medical personnel said. Some politicians and security officials in...

Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds. “People are terrified and are leaving their homes,” says Jabar...

At least five people were killed Friday and 31 wounded in separate incidents around Iraq, media reports said. In Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, four police officers were killed and 17 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated an...