The missile attack on an Iraqi base on Tuesday was not a mere gesture of retaliation. Further aggression is likely, with no guarantee the US won’t respond in kind, writes Bobby Ghosh.

Dozens of Iraqi Shia militiamen and their supporters have broken into the US Embassy compound in Baghdad, smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area in protest over deadly US air strikes targeting the Iran-backed militia.

Dublin footballer Michael Darragh Macauley has urged the Irish public to help struggling Syrian refugees following his recent visit to Iraq.

The US embassy in Iraq said the state department has ordered all non-essential, non-emergency government staff to leave the country right away amid escalating tensions with Iran.

A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year has sunk in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 45 people, an official said.

Iraq and the Kurdish regional government have charged hundreds of children with terrorism for alleged affiliation with the Islamic State group, often using torture to coerce confessions, Human Rights Watch said.

President Donald Trump has made an unannounced visit to Iraq.

Iraq has hanged 13 prisoners convicted on terror charges following a recommendation by the prime minister to speed up executions of those on death row for terror-related offences.

Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's political coalition has won the most seats in Iraq's national parliamentary elections, according to complete results released by Iraq's electoral commission.

Gardaí believe most of the Irish jihadis who left to fight wars are now dead or missing.

An Irish photographer who captured the human cost of the battle for the city of Mosul in Iraq has spoken of his hope for the country and his time embedded with Iraqi forces during some of the bloodiest fighting against Islamic State (IS).

Two British extremists believed to have been members of Islamic State's brutal executions group dubbed "The Beatles" have reportedly been captured.

American troops have started to draw down from Iraq following Baghdad's declaration of victory over Islamic State (IS) last year, according to officials.

Iraq’s parliament has approved May 12 as the date for holding national elections despite calls from the country’s Sunni community to delay the vote until the return of nearly three million people displaced by the fight against the Islamic State group.

Australia has announced an end to its airstrike operations against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

An influential Iraqi Shiite cleric has urged his fighters to hand state-issued weapons back to the government, following Iraq’s declaration of victory against the Islamic State group.

A senior Iraqi military commander has said his country's war against the Islamic State group is over.

Teams are looking for survivors trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Rescuers are digging through the debris of buildings in the search for survivors after an earthquake in the border region of Iran and Iraq killed more than 430 people.

Latest 9.31am: More than 300 people are known to have died and 2,500 are injured after the earthquake, according to officials in Iran.

Latest: At least 61 people have died in Iran after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the Iran-Iraq border region, officials said.

The prime minister of Iraq has raised the country's flag at a border crossing with Syria days after Iraqi forces retook it from the so-called 'Islamic State' group, state TV said.

The West’s failure to support Kurdish independence will condemn this people to further oppression by hostile forces, writes Shlomo Avineri.

Iraqi Kurdish forces have abandoned their positions outside Kirkuk's airport, and civilians are fleeing in large numbers as federal forces close in on the disputed city following an overnight attack from the south.

A suicide bomber has struck at a cafe in the western Iraqi city of Hit, killing 11 people.

Iraq's vice president has warned there could be a "civil war" over the Kurdish-administered city of Kirkuk if talks over Kurdish independence are left unresolved.

Iraqi Kurds were going to the polls on Monday to vote on whether to support independence from Baghdad in a historic but non-binding referendum that has raised regional tensions and fears of instability.

Iraqi Kurds were going to the polls on Monday to vote on whether to support independence from Baghdad in a historic but non-binding referendum that has raised regional tensions and fears of instability.

At least 45 people have been killed in an attack on a checkpoint and nearby restaurant in Iraq, the governor of the country's southern Thi Qar province said.

Iraq's prime minister has declared the town of Tal Afar "fully liberated" from Islamic State after a nearly two-week operation.

A car bombing targeted the Iraqi Embassy in central Kabul today, followed by gunfire, Afghan police officials said.

Iraq's prime minister has acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group, but says they were "individual acts".

Latest: The US-led coalition has congratulated Iraqi forces on retaking Mosul from the Islamic State group after Iraq’s prime minister declared victory in the city.

Iraqi forces are "tens of metres" from defeating the so-called 'Islamic State' group in Mosul, say commanders.

Iraqi children who survived the brutal fight to retake Mosul from Islamic State have been left psychologically damaged by the extremist regime's rule and the battle to remove them

Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi has congratulated Iraqi fighters on "this big victory in Mosul" even as fighting continues in Mosul's Old City.

Hundreds of civilians fled Mosul's Old City today as Iraqi forces slowly squeezed the last pockets of resistance from the so-called 'Islamic State' group.

Iraq’s Prime Minister has declared an end to the IS caliphate after Iraqi forces captured the compound of a landmark mosque in Mosul in which the Islamic State group originally announced their caliphate.

The so-called 'Islamic State' group have destroyed Mosul's 12th century al-Nuri Mosque and its leaning minaret known as al-Hadba.

Iraqi troops have pushed into the last Islamic State stronghold in Mosul, formally launching the final major battle of an eight-month campaign to drive the militants out of the city.

The children of Mosul are bearing the brunt of the intensified fight between government forces and the Islamic State group in the Iraqi city's western half, the United Nations has warned.

Iraqi forces have driven the militants from most of Mosul.

Militants ambushed and killed a convoy of Iraqi off-duty soldiers killing 10 and wounding 20, the country's military said.

Almost half a million civilians have fled Mosul since the start of a massive operation by US-backed Iraqi forces to retake the city from Islamic State militants.