Asia Iraq A missile attack on the US embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties Friday morning, US and Iraqi officials said
Asia Iraq An inscription written in Aramaic and Greek meaning 'donor of the two brothers' and a drachma suggest to archaeologists at British Museum the discovery of a temple in Iraq requested by Alexander the Great and dedicated to Greek gods and the warrior king
Asia Iraq The Iraq Future Foundation for Economic Studies and Consultations has predicted that US goods exports to Iraq will exceed two billion dollars in 2023 for the first time in five years
Asia Iraq The country earned over $9,6 billion from oil sales in October, according to a survey by the state oil market agency, SOMO
Asia Iraq A 2700-year-old sculpture of the winged deity Lamassu was unearthed in a recent excavation in northern Iraq; the sculpture, weighing 18 tonnes and measures 3,8 by 3,9 metres, is made of alabaster
Asia Iraq The country intends to invite investors for its first waste-to-energy project as part of its post-war development plans
Asia Iraq Washington has rejected Iraq's request for $1 billion in cash from the Federal Reserve, on fears that it contradicts efforts to curb Baghdad's use of the dollar and stop the flow of illicit money to Iran
Asia Iraq The Governorate of Kirkuk in Iraq announced the decision to once again use Turkish as the language of official correspondence
Asia Iraq The country has begun relocating Iranian Kurdish groups from the Iraqi Kurdish region bordering Iran to camps far from the border, as part of a security agreement between Baghdad and Tehran signed in March
Asia Iraq The Iraqi Oil Ministry has received approval from the Ministerial Council of Energy for a final agreement with ExxonMobil
Asia Iraq National Data Center at the General Secretariat of the Cabinet was inaugurated by Prime Minister, a significant step in the country's digital evolution
Asia Iraq Iraq's official media regulator has ordered all media and social media companies operating in the state not to use the term "homosexuality" and instead say "sexual deviance"
Asia Iraq The country marked the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sinjar by the Islamic State group on 3 August 2014, followed by atrocities and massacres against the country's Yazidi minority