There must — mustn’t there? — have been someone in the room who asked questions when the US president, Donald Trump, and his advisors met to discuss the proposal to kill Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.

Journalists on the scene saw the chanting crowd try to storm the embassy.

An angry mob killed a 16-year-old and strung up the body by its feet from a traffic pole after the teenager shot and killed six people, including four anti-government protesters, Iraqi officials said.

Security forces in Iraq have fired live rounds and tear gas at anti-government protesters in a central Baghdad square, killing three people.

The brutal ‘reign’ of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, self-proclaimed caliph, and the world’s most wanted man, has ended, write Ahmed Rasheed and Ahmed Aboulenein.

Far from being defeated, Islamic State continue to battle on several fronts, write Anne-Marie Slaughter and Asha C Castleberry

There is hardly a more politically-charged fulcrum of international affairs in the world than the Straits of Hormuz in the Middle East.

Once upon a time, everyone assumed that there was a single phenomenon called globalisation, whereby cross-border flows of financial capital drove innovation, industrialisation, development, and trade, writes Harold James.

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed was asked the same question at least seven times on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, on Wednesday’s show, and each time he gave an answer which was far removed from what he was asked.

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.

Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition have liberated the last town in the country held by the Islamic State group, according to defence officials.

A 7.3 magnitude earthquake near the Iraq-Iran border has killed more than 400 people and sent residents fleeing their homes into the night, authorities said.

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

Brent crude surged to a 26-month high as Turkey threatened to shut down Kurdish crude shipments through its territory to punish the Iraqi region for holding an independence referendum.

The death toll has risen to more than 80 after an Islamic State-claimed attack in southern Iraq targeting a restaurant frequented by Shiite Muslim pilgrims, Iraqi officials said.

Seven workers were killed when at least three attackers entered a power station and blew themselves up, Iraqi authorities said.

A car bomb has ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad, killing at least six people.

Air strikes, shelling and other heavy clashes have shaken a small sliver of western Mosul in renewed fighting, a day after the Iraqi government declared victory over Islamic State in the city.

Iraqi Kurds will hold an independence referendum on September 25, according to the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Masoud Barzani.

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, which happened just after midnight on Tuesday.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Baghdad which killed 27 people, shattering a relative lull in the Iraqi capital.

Vienna is once again the premier destination to live for company employees assigned abroad, while Dublin beats London, Paris and Rome, according to the 2017 Mercer quality of living survey.

Iraq's United Nations ambassador has said there is no evidence that the Islamic State extremist group used chemical weapons in an attack in Mosul, the country's second-largest city.

Two rockets have landed in Baghdad's Green Zone following clashes at anti-government protests that left five people dead, according to Iraqi officials.

Donald Trump has hit back after a judge temporarily blocked his travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries.

The absurdity of the perceived threat posed by refugees and immigrants from ‘banned’ countries is about politics not US security, writes Tania Karas.            

Several attacks in and around Baghdad have killed at least 27 people on a particularly brutal day in the Iraqi capital.

Update 9.56pm: At least 28 people were killed and 54 others injured when two bombs exploded in central Baghdad, Iraqi officials have said.

Gunmen have kidnapped an Iraqi journalist after breaking into her Baghdad home.

At least six civilians have been killed in a suicide attack south of Baghdad, Iraq's Interior Ministry said.

Iraqi forces have pushed into a town south of Mosul after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields, officials said.

Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

Kya deLongchamps is moved by the centuries old skills used in the automaton. 

At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding, an Iraqi security official has said.

Iraq has executed 36 men convicted of taking part in the IS group’s massacre of hundreds of soldiers in 2014, officials said.

President Michael D Higgins has urged the country to call for policies that will bring an end to “poverty and violence” worldwide just a day after the picture of a war-ravaged five-year-old Syrian boy caused condemnation across the globe.

At least 12 people have died after a suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint in northern Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi officials said.