Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official security forces, Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A second mass grave in under a month containing the remains of 155 Kurds massacred by the former Iraqi regime decades ago was exhumed on Sunday in Iraq’s southern Muthanna province.

Iraq and the United Kingdom have agreed on a trade package worth up to 12.3 billion pounds, the Iraqi prime minister's office said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday he would sign a bilateral security deal with Britain as well as a strategic partnership accord as he headed to London for an official visit against a backdrop of historic shifts in the Middle East.

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 news release from the University of Central Florida. They were uncovered by Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, an associate professor of history at the university, and a team of archaeologists.

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Human rights expert Peter Griffin said: “In the minds of the Iraqis, Rob is guilty of money laundering because he has taken salary from a company that they say — and we disagree — has defrauded the Iraqi state. “Even if something illegal had happened, which we dispute, Rob has already served a prison sentence for the past four years.

The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.

"We announce that we will suspend our military operations against [Israel]," the Nujaba Movement's leader said.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) commander General Michael “Erik” Kurilla visited Iraq and the Kurdistan Region on Wednesday and urged Iraqi authorities to repatriate their nationals from Kurdish-held camps and prisons housing Islamic State (ISIS) suspects in northeast Syria (Rojava).

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Within hours of the Iraqi prime minister leaving Downing Street, it was announced three men with alleged links to people smuggling were arrested in Iraq