Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Letta Tayler, Senior Counterterrorism Advisor at Human Rights Watch. She warns of the detention of suspected Islamic State members transferred from northeast Syria

About 4,500 Americans died in Iraq since 2003, around 3,500 in combat, and more than 30,000 were wounded.

Mahan Air is excluded from the agreement as Baghdad says Washington granted its request for a waiver.

A decade after an Iraqi family was caught in a firefight, a U.S. marine sought the surviving members' forgiveness.

Night time celebrations filled the air as Iraqis observed the start of a four-day holiday.

The bill passed 174 to six despite cabinet opposition, carrying penalties of up to two years in prison, fines and flogging for Iranians who speak to outlets designated as hostile by the Intelligence M

In Iraq, NPR attends trials of French ISIS suspects after transfer from Syrian camps.

The end of the US military mission in Iraq leaves the Kurdistan region facing a severe security vacuum. As Erbil grapples with deep internal divisions, Tehran is well positioned to make strategic gain

Iraq's main Iranian-backed militias say they will stop attacks after the U.S. military's withdrawal from the country.

Twenty-three years after President George W. Bush's campaign of "shock and awe," the U.S. military has completed its withdrawal from Iraq.

Iran calls on Iraq to remove flight curbs after US sanctions, in a move that has strained bilateral ties.

Peshmerga unification seeks stability, overcoming party disputes to build a national force in Iraq's Kurdish landscape.

The US-led force has been operating in Iraq for 12 years to dismantle ISIS networks which had threatened to takeover the region and plunge it into instability.