Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadija, was killed by Iraqi forces.

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With fraternity at the heart of Pope Francis' trip to Iraq, the question that Iraqi Christians are asking themselves strikes at the core of Christianity: Who is my neighbor?

Since at least the 1930s, successive Iraqi administrations have attempted to change the ethnic make-up of northern Iraq by expelling Kurds, Turkomans, and Assyrians from their homes and ...

Iraq announced on Monday that the country's population has surpassed 46 million, a slight increase from the preliminary figure revealed following the census, which was conducted in November of ...

There's a very deep ethnic-cleansing approach." Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Syria As the terrorist group ISIS carved its caliphate out of war-torn Syria and Iraq in 2014 and 2015 ...