• How fair are Iraq’s rapid-fire trials of ISIS members?

    How fair are Iraq’s rapid-fire trials of ISIS members?

    Dec 30, 2017 10:21 PM EST

    ... TAMER EL-GHOBASHY: What we're seeing is that there are thousands of people - both local Iraqis and foreigners - who came to join ISIS in Iraq who are being arrested and are now coursing through the Iraqi criminal justice system. They're all being charged under the Iraqi anti-terrorism ...

  • After fighting common enemy ISIS, how will rising tensions between U.S. and Iran affect Iraq?

    After fighting common enemy ISIS, how will rising tensions between U.S. and Iran affect Iraq?

    Dec 08, 2017 11:35 PM EST

    ... in the region, Saudi Arabia. Tillerson also suggested the PMF was an Iranian fighting force and called for the militia to disband, a demand the Iraqi government rejected, insisting PMF fighters were Iraqi nationals. Rex Tillerson: Certainly, Iranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against Da'esh ...

  • This Iran-backed militia helped save Iraq from ISIS. Now Washington wants them to disband

    This Iran-backed militia helped save Iraq from ISIS. Now Washington wants them to disband

    Dec 07, 2017 11:35 PM EST

    ... not happy. Reza Sayah: It was the threat of ISIS in Iraq that spawned the PMF in 2014. With most U.S. forces gone and Iraqi forces too weak to take on ISIS, the Iraqi government called on Iran for help, and Iraq's highest religious authority, Shia cleric Ayatollah ...

  • Does Iran's deep religious influence in Iraq translate to politics?

    Does Iran's deep religious influence in Iraq translate to politics?

    Dec 06, 2017 11:25 PM EST

    ... re calling Iran Rising in Iraq. Special correspondent Reza Sayah and videographer Gelareh Kiazand, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, traveled throughout Iraq to examine the growing influence of its neighbor the Islamic Republic of Iran. Just how far has Iran extended its reach in Iraq? What ...

  • Hundreds killed as powerful earthquake strikes Iran-Iraq border

    Hundreds killed as powerful earthquake strikes Iran-Iraq border

    Nov 13, 2017 02:25 PM EST

    ... the death toll to 530 with 7,460 injured. The quake hit at 9:18 p.m. local time about 20 miles from the eastern Iraqi city of Halabjah. It left gaping holes in mosques, sheared walls off apartment buildings and cracked parts of Iraq’s Diyala River dam. "Immediately ...

  • Iraqi VP calls Iran-backed militias his nation's top threat

    Iraqi VP calls Iran-backed militias his nation's top threat

    Nov 07, 2017 10:27 PM EST

    ... officials and congressional leaders, Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi is hoping the administration will deliver on pledges to counter Iran's growing influence inside Iraq and across the Middle East. Al-Nujaifi is one of Iraq's three vice presidents, and his brother heads a prominent Iraqi defense faction ...

  • U.S. pushes Saudi Arabia, Iraq on united front to counter Iran

    U.S. pushes Saudi Arabia, Iraq on united front to counter Iran

    Oct 22, 2017 03:01 PM EST

    ... particularly in Europe, to halt any business they do with Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Speaking after participating in the inaugural meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Committee with Saudi King Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Tillerson told reporters that an independent and prosperous Iraq would be ...

  • Iraqi, Kurdish forces in standoff, weeks after Kurdish vote for independence

    Iraqi, Kurdish forces in standoff, weeks after Kurdish vote for independence

    Oct 15, 2017 08:33 PM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: The desire of the Kurds along Iraq's northern border to govern themselves is receiving more resistance from Iraq's central government. Iraqi army forces are demanding Kurdish troops withdraw from oil fields and military bases around Kirkuk, a city in the Kurdistan region that voted for ...

  • Mattis in Baghdad to meet with Iraqi leaders, U.S. commanders

    Mattis in Baghdad to meet with Iraqi leaders, U.S. commanders

    Aug 22, 2017 02:09 PM EST

    BAGHDAD — Islamic State militants, driven from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, are trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis arrived in the Iraqi capital Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump outlined ...

  • U.S. says Iraqi forces ready for next battle against Islamic State extremists

    U.S. says Iraqi forces ready for next battle against Islamic State extremists

    Aug 19, 2017 02:26 PM EST

    Senior U.S. military leaders said Friday that Iraqi forces are largely set for their next major campaign against Islamic State extremists.