Reports are coming in with the information that a fresh set of rockets have slammed into an Iraqi airbase north of Baghdad where US forces have been based. Four local troops have been injured in the attack on January 12.

Iran on Wednesday fired ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases used by the US military, officials in Washington and Tehran said. This is the first act probably under the revenge promise for the US killing of a top Iranian general.

Thousands of Iraqis were seen chanting death to America as they mourned a top Iranian commander and others killed in a US drone attack. The attack has developed a situation of triggering a regional proxy war between Washington and Tehran.

Confirming the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Thursday announced the name of their new chief. Donald Trump had announced about the death of Baghdadi in a US raid four days back.

The US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that the ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi had died in a US raid. "Baghdadi is dead after exploding a suicide vest," the US President said during a press conference.

In one of the worst accidents ever in Iraq, almost 100 people on an ill-fated ferry lost their lives after it sank in a swollen river in the former terrorist stronghold of Mosul.

US President Donald Trump visited the US troops in Iraq to celebrate Christmas, the official Iraqiya television reported on Wednesday.

India U-16 football team coach Bibiano Fernandes highlighted the teams "self-belief" after they finished their engagements in the WAFF U-16 Championship in Amman, Jordan.

The top UN envoy in Iraq on Wednesday asked for the swift formation of an inclusive government in Iraq following the May 12 parliamentary elections.

Teary-eyed relatives and friends waited for hours in the heat outside the airport here on Monday as the mortal remains of 38 Indians, killed by the Islamic State terror group in Iraq's Mosul in 2014, arrived here on a special IAF aircraft.