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Arab troubadour Madfai longs to get back on stage

Mar 14, 2021 (AFP)

Unveiling his latest work in Amman where he has lived since 1994, the Iraqi star widely known as simply Ilham has tried to break free of the shackles imposed by...

Iraqi village in mourning after IS kills eight

Mar 13, 2021 (AFP)

The attacks took place on Friday and killed six members of the same family, including two women, along with a lawyer and a policeman. Witnesses said men in mili...

Despite pope euphoria, Iraq Christians left without illusions

Mar 13, 2021 (AFP)

Wajdane Nouri, a Christian in her fifties, will soon join her daughters in the United States. At the St. Joseph Cathedral, where she has long led the choir, hug...

Pope thanks Iraqis for visit, saying they deserve peace

Mar 10, 2021 (AFP)

In his weekly audience, the 84-year-old pope reflected on the packed three-day programme that saw him travel throughout Iraq last weekend, offering encouragemen...

Pope says meeting Shiite cleric 'good for my soul'

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

Speaking in an in-flight press conference, the 84-year-old pontiff admitted the packed three-day visit had been more tiring than previous trips. But he defended...

Pope Francis departs Iraq after historic trip: AFP

Mar 08, 2021 (AFP)

The 84-year-old pontiff covered more than 1,400 kilometres (900 miles) inside the country, bringing encouragement to its diminished Christian community and exte...

Iran dailies hail Pope-Sistani meet as chance for peace

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

Officials in Iran, a Shiite-majority country like Iraq, have not yet commented on the pontiff's historic visit to Iraq that began on Friday. Tehran, with its al...

US will do 'what's necessary' after Iraq rocket attack: Pentagon chief

Mar 07, 2021 (AFP)

Austin told ABC News that the US is still "developing intelligence" on who was behind the attack, which saw around 10 rockets slam into the sprawling Ain al-Ass...

Incense and ululations: Pope meets his Iraqi flock

Mar 06, 2021 (AFP)

Some of the women, who appeared to outnumber the men, wore dainty black or white veils, a sign of respect for the leader of their faith, 84-year-old Pope Franci...

Top Shiite cleric tells pope Iraq Christians should live in peace

Mar 06, 2021 (AFP)

The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked a landmark moment in modern religious history. Pope Francis is defying a second wav...

Gift for Francis, handmade shawl tells story of Iraq's Christians

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

Francis will visit the northern town of Qaraqosh, ravaged in 2014 by the Islamic State jihadist group, on the third day of his history-making trip to Iraq. Baqt...

'Pilgrim of peace' Pope Francis heads to war-scarred Iraq

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

The 84-year-old, who said he was making the first-ever papal visit to Iraq as a "pilgrim of peace," will also reach out to Shiite Muslims when he meets Iraq's t...

Grand Ayatollah Sistani, Iraq's 'shepherd', to meet Pope Francis

Mar 05, 2021 (AFP)

The highly reclusive 90-year-old is set to meet the Catholic Church leader Pope Francis in the holy shrine city of Najaf on Saturday, during the first papal vis...

In Iraq, Pope reaches out to top Shiite cleric

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

The 84-year-old pope will visit the top Shiite cleric at his home in Najaf, the shrine city where Imam Ali, the fourth Islamic caliph and relative of the Prophe...

Iraq executes 3 'terrorism' convicts: local officials

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

The officials said the three Iraqis were executed in Nasiriyah prison in Dhi Qar province, the only detention centre in the country that carries out capital pun...

US contractor dead after rockets hit Iraq base hosting coalition

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

Around 10 rockets slammed into the sprawling Ain al-Assad military base in Iraq's western desert after several weeks of escalating US-Iran tensions on Iraqi soi...

From clean WCs to new roads, Iraqis make papal wishlist

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

Using the hashtag "Ask the Pope," users are sardonically asking Francis to help improve Iraq's notoriously poor infrastructure and public services. "I ask the P...

Amid scars of war, Iraqi archbishop readies for pope

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

Amid the cleanup and reconstruction, the priest has ensured some scars of war from IS's brutal campaign remain -- a broken chalice, a smashed cross on a church ...

One militant killed in US bombing in Iraq: Pentagon

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby made no mention of possible civilian casualties, but said than nine buildings were destroyed in the pinpoint strike on the outpost...

Iraq's ancient Christian community, decimated by violence, fear

Mar 01, 2021 (AFP)

After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading for the busy boulevards of Baghdad, more than one million Christians have in more ...