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The U.S. military has moved some search and rescue assets into Northern Iraq, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. The move was described as part of a constant rebalancing of search and rescue assets that are moved depending on the evolving airstrike mission. The source did not suggest it was a response to United Arab Emirates […]

Iraq says it will stop more aircraft moving through its airspace and vehicles traveling overland to search for weapons being sent to the Syrian civil war, a senior Iraqi official said Friday. Government spokesman Ali al-Moussawi said Iraq would conduct more random searches to check for weapons heading for the forces of Syrian President Bashar […]

Iraqi security forces have carried out an ultimately unsuccessful hunt for the highest-ranking member of Saddam Hussein's regime still on the run, the deputy interior minister told AFP on Thursday. Authorities received information that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri was hiding out in the town of Dur, north of Baghdad, and launched a cordon and search operation […]

Australia-listed Oil Search has found hydrocarbons in the Taza-2 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. An 18-metre column was struck in the carbonate reservoir during the week, which returned hydrocarbon shows in line with pre-drill expectations.

Oil Search (OSH) Ltd., Papua New Guinea’s largest energy producer, will drill four wells at its oil discovery in Iraq’s Kurdistan region and aims to determine the size of the resource by the end of 2015. “We’ve got a good asset in Kurdistan,” Managing Director Peter Botten said today in Perth, where he’s attending an industry conference. “We’re […]

A sweep of a Baghdad neighborhood is underway in the search for three American contractors missing in Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The three men were kidnapped from a Baghdad apartment known to be a brothel, an Iraqi security official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. Investigators were trying to determine whether the […]

A desperate hunt for “highly dangerous” radioactive material is on in Iraq, where officials fear it could be used to make a "dirty bomb" if in the hands of ISIS, according to a government official in Baghdad. The material, stored in a case the size of a laptop, disappeared from a storage facility near the […]

At the heart of a Baghdad flea market, nostalgia for Iraq's royal past is on full display as collectors and investors gather to buy relics from a bygone era. Inside the Moudallal cafe, Arabic for "pampered", a hundred men from across the country carefully follow the auction of momentos from the nearly four decades of […]

The Iraqi officer addresses a group of men who fled fighting in Mosul, urging them to admit any affiliation with the Islamic State group, and turn in collaborators. Second Lieutenant Abdullah Qassem is by turns encouraging and reproachful as he talks to the crowd, who fled as Iraqi forces battle to wrest west Mosul from […]

The streets of Mosul’s Old City are littered with bodies, tangled between shattered stones and remnants of the lives they left behind. In the baking summer heat, exhausted rescue crews are now sifting through the debris of the toughest battle against the Islamic State in what became its final redoubt in the city.

After more than four and a half years as prisoners of the Islamic terror group "Islamic State," 21 Iraqi Yazidis, most of them children, were recently reunited with their families in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Only a small number of Yazidis have been able to escape from Baghouz, the final holdout of IS. Of […]

Before Islamic State militants were dislodged from Iraq in 2017, they stole thousands of ancient artifacts. Most are still missing, and an international team of archaeologists is turning detective to recover as many as possible. In 2014 and 2015, during its occupation of most of the country, the jihadist group raided and wrecked historical sites […]

Iraqi authorities on Tuesday ordered an Iranian cargo plane heading to Syria to land in Baghdad for a search, then allowed the flight to proceed after no weapons were found. The unprecedented move appeared to be an attempt to ease U.S. concerns that Iraq is allowing Iran to fly military supplies to help Syrian President […]

Thousands of homeless Iranians huddled against the cold late on Monday, a day after at least 450 people were killed in Iran’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade, state TV said. Rescue teams kept up search operations for dozens trapped beneath the rubble of collapsed houses in towns and villages in the mountainous area […]

Iraq and Kuwait are cooperating in the search for Kuwaiti missing and properties, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Sunday. "Cooperation of Iraq and Kuwait is ongoing for the search of Kuwaiti missing and properties," Zebari said during a meeting with Beat Schweizer, ICRC’s representative in Iraq. Zebari and Schweizer discussed outcome of talks between Iraq […]

On rainy days, Ali Ibrahim leaves his home early in the morning to search for mines washed down from the mountains to the Raparin district where he lives with his family. “I search around my house for mines rolling down from the mountains after rains, because the landmines are only 100 meters away from where […]