Baghdad asked the U.S. to slow ​the influx to make time ⁠for negotiations with other countries on repatriating their own nationals among the detainees and to prepare additional facilities to host the ...

Ex-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is often seen as responsible for sectarian tensions and military mismanagement that made ...

The move comes amid growing tensions between Washington and Baghdad over Washington's push to curb Iranian influence in Iraqi ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. military expects to complete the transfer of up to 7,000 Islamic State detainees from ...

Maliki's bid for Iraqi PM role as Secretary of State Marco Rubio expresses concerns about pro-Tehran government seizing ...

Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and ...

BAGHDAD -- The decision to move prisoners of the Islamic State group from northeast Syria to detention centers in Iraq came ...

The U.S. military said on Wednesday that its forces have transferred 150 Islamic State detainees from Syria to Iraq, ...

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime ...

Of the 7,000 detainees the U.S. aims to transfer from Syria to Iraq, the government in Baghdad has so far confirmed the ...

President Obama is slamming critics in the U.S. who want to shut the door on Syrian refugees. He says growing anti-refugee rhetoric is "offensive" and a "recruitment tool" for ISIS. But Republicans ...