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Autonomous region's oil minister outlines plans to export oil and gas to Turkey, increasing tensions with Baghdad govern

The United States has agreed to sell unarmed surveillance drones to Iraq's navy as part of an effort to help protect that nation's oil exports amid growing tensions in the Persian Gulf and to strengthen U.S.-Iraqi ties.

ISTANBUL, Turkey -The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region is visiting Turkey - his first trip there since taking office in March. The visit is expected to build on the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Iraq's Kurds. That...

BAGHDAD — Former bodyguards for Iraq’s fugitive vice president testified Tuesday that they were ordered to kill security officials and plant roadside bombs as a politically charged terror trial against the Sunni leader got under way.

Human Rights Watch accuses Iraqi security forces of 'grabbing people outside of the law' and putting them in secret jailsIraqis are still being held illegally at a Baghdad prison that the government was supposed to have shut down in 2011 after...

Diplomatic storm rages around commander accused of ordering the kidnap of British contractors and murder of American soldiersA senior Hezbollah commander accused of orchestrating the killing of British and US citizens is at the centre of a...

Turkey says it will not hand over fugitive Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi to Iraq, despite an Interpol arrest alert.

Iraq has charged al-Hashemi — one of the nation's highest-ranking Sunni politicians — with terrorism, accusing him of guiding and financing death squads.

As Iraqi Kurdistan ramps up oil production that could soon surpass Libya's output, Kurdish leaders have warned they may seek independence if disputes over oil revenues, power-sharing aren't resolved.

BAGHDAD — Fifty people died and more than 200 were wounded Tuesday in Iraq in a series of bombings and small-arms attacks that heightened worries about the safety of Arab leaders scheduled to attend a summit meeting here March 29.