Several drone attacks targeted locations across Iraq’s northern Kurdish region overnight in spite of the declared cease-fire with Iran, the Kurdistan Regional Government said Friday. “All incoming drones were successfully intercepted and neutralized” overnight,

One of the biggest targets of Iranian attacks has been in Iraq, against armed Iranian opposition bases in the Kurdistan region. Many opposition fighters see this moment as an chance to go home.

BASRA, Iraq, April 4 (Reuters) - Passenger movement has returned to normal at the Shalamcheh border crossing between Iraq and Iran after it was closed following air strikes on the Iranian side that killed an Iraqi citizen,

Iraq Kurdish border are cutting families off and crushing daily life, according to people reached by The Associated Press.

Al-Hamadi’s upbringing offers a glimpse of the struggles that Iraq has lived through since the turn of the century. As a one-year-old, he and his mother fled their homeland after his father, Ibrahim, was jailed for his part in peaceful protests against Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.

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Over the past decade, Iraq’s government has empowered Iranian-backed militias, which in turn used Iraqi territory to carry out hundreds of attacks during the war.