The elephant in the room between Trump and oil execs: Iraq

President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting ...

Exclusive-US special envoy for Iraq Mark Savaya no longer in the post, sources say

By Andrea Shalal, Timour Azhari and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON/RIYADH, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Mark Savaya, named by U.S. President ...

Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Yemen threaten attacks as U.S. aircraft carrier approaches

The threats came as the USS Abraham Lincoln and guided-missile destroyers arrived to "promote regional security and stability ...

Baghdad says it will prosecute Islamic State militants being moved from Syria to Iraq

Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and ...

‘This is what sanctions look like’: the film showing Saddam’s Iraq through children’s eyes

A film whose ingredients include eggs, flour, sugar and economic sanctions sounds improbable, but The President’s Cake takes those materials to confect a universal story of childhood and survival.
UN Environment Programme

Reeds of hope: Transforming Iraq’s water crisis through natural innovations

In Iraq’s marshlands, a constructed wetland pilot uses reeds to treat wastewater -restoring ecosystems, improving water ...

Kurds in Iraq are powerbrokers in Iraq’s politics, but do they benefit?

Iraqi Shi’ite leaders arrived in Erbil for talks with Kurdish officials as political deadlock deepens over appointing a new ...
Air Force Times

Iraq veteran, long-time GOP appointee named VA chief of staff

Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, will step into the top advisory role to ...