BAGHDAD: Saudi Arabia's push to improve ties with Iraq is part of a drive to convince it to abandon the Syrian president, despite the strong influence in Baghdad of Riyadh's foe Tehran, experts say.
In a marked warming, Riyadh has named a (...)
BAGHDAD: Nearly a year after national rallies rocked the government, Iraq's protest movement is a shadow of its former self, after the authorities cracked down and demonstrators themselves became divided.
While thousands of people took to the (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq was poised to set a disturbing record on Friday by failing for longer than any other country to form a government after elections, as parliament languishes and fears about growing insecurity persist.
Iraqis went to the polls on (...)
Salman Rushdie marks the 20th anniversary of his Islamic death sentence this week having long escaped hiding and garlanded with awards and honors, but the fatwa still casts a long shadow.
While the Indian-born author has become almost a part of (...)
LONDON: Britain was to press on with talks Friday with Sudan to resolve a spat over the jailing of a British teacher for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed, in a perceived insult to Islam s Prophet.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband (...)
