The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Friday denied rumors of an evacuation at the building after the embassy was attacked earlier this week. A tweet from a reporter saying the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was ...

Iraq has severed diplomatic ties with Sweden Thursday after a planned anti-Quran demonstration unfolded in Stockholm, during which an individual stepped on and kicked the Islamic holy book and Iraqi ...

U.S. Deputy Secretary Michael Rigas arrived in Baghdad on Monday and will proceed to Erbil to inaugurate the world's largest U.S. consulate compound.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Three rockets struck the US Embassy compound in Baghdad on Sunday, leaving one person injured, a US official told CNN initial reports indicate. The official said the injury was minor ...

Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi man in Sweden stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad, overrunning the diplomatic compound and starting a fire Thursday.

The U.S. Embassy is seen from across the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq Jan. 3, 2020. (Khalid Mohammed/AP) BAGHDAD — The Trump administration has warned Iraq that it will close its embassy in Baghdad ...

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"This embassy is going to have a thousand people hunkered behind sandbags. I don't know how you conduct diplomacy in that way." -- Edward L. Peck, U.S. ambassador to Iraq, 1977-80; quoted in the ...

The US is temporarily withdrawing some staff from its embassy in Baghdad ahead of the anniversary of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s killing, according to reports. News of the move, first reported by ...

This is the first time the U.S. Embassy compound has been hit directly in years. The U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad was hit by mortar fire on Sunday, according to the top U.S. commander for the ...

BAGHDAD — The Trump administration has warned Iraq that it will close its embassy in Baghdad if the government does not take swift and decisive action to end persistent rocket and other attacks by ...

The US Embassy in Baghdad is denying reports of an evacuation days after being targeted by a series of rockets, according to a report. In a statement to Fox News, an embassy spokesperson denied a ...