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Ammar Karim

Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani (C), delivers a speech during a campaign rally for the Reconstruction and Development Coalition ahead of the country's parliamentary elections in Baghdad on November 7, 2025. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
November 12, 2025, 6:08 pm
Iraq’s PM Sudani secures ‘major victory’ in election, say sources close to him
Leader brought to power in 2022 by pro-Iran coalition said to have won largest bloc for ‘Reconstruction and Development’ slate, but long negotiations ahead to form government
By Ammar Karim
Supporters of Iraqi pro-Iran groups wheel a screen displaying Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a protest in Baghdad near the green zone, the ultra-secured neighborhood hosting the US embassy, on June 16, 2025, (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
June 17, 2025, 2:51 pm
Iraq treads a tightrope to avoid being drawn into Israel-Iran conflict
Pro-Iranian militias on Iraqi territory could attack US interests to support Tehran; but official Baghdad is eager to maintain recent relative stability
By Ammar Karim
Supporters of cleric Moqtada Sadr, protesting against a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, gather inside Iraq's parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, July 30, 2022. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
July 31, 2022, 12:58 pm
Sadr supporters refuse to leave Iraqi parliament amid political standoff
Supporters of cleric, opposed to pro-Iran pick for PM, announce ‘sit-in until further notice’; civil servant says he’s protesting ‘corrupt government,’ will ‘sleep here’ if needed
By Ammar Karim
Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq on April 25, 2021. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)
April 25, 2021, 4:28 pm
Iraqis blame hospital fire on mismanagement as health minister suspended
Death of over 80 people in a Baghdad COVID-19 hospital blaze seen as further proof of deadly consequences of corruption
By Sarah Benhaida and Ammar Karim
First responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on April 24, 2021. (AP Photo)
April 25, 2021, 1:47 pm
Fury in Iraq as fire at Baghdad COVID hospital kills at least 82, wounds 110
Medical sources say blaze that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib medical center started with explosion caused by ‘a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders’
By Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj
Iraqis drive past a poster depicting late Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq's capital Baghdad, on December 30, 2020, ahead of the first anniversary of his killing in a US drone attack. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)
December 31, 2020, 8:50 am
One year after US killed Iran general Qassem Soleimani, Iraq tensions boil
Following a series of attacks on American interests in Iraq, Trump warns Tehran will be held responsible
By Ammar Karim and Maya Gebeily
An impact crater in the aftermath of US military air strikes at a militarized zone in the Jurf al-Sakhr area in Iraq's Babylon province (south of the capital) controlled by Hezbollah Biridages, a hardline faction of the Popular Mobilization Forces paramilitaries, March 13, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
September 9, 2020, 7:46 am
Iraq reforms stymied by shadowy Iran-backed groups’ wave of attacks
PM’s bid to rein in rogue militias in effort to fight corruption and carry out restructuring has been met with increased instability and violence
By Ammar Karim
Illustrative: Iraqi soldiers, wearing protective face-masks and gloves, man a checkpoint at the entrance of Baghdad's eastern Sadr City suburb as the country tries to stem the spread of the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, March 28, 2020. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
March 30, 2020, 12:46 pm
In Iraq, no resting place for coronavirus dead
Many local leaders and tribesmen fear burying victims could spread disease to their own communities and are sending bodies back to morgues
By Ammar Karim
A Tuk tuk car, burned during ongoing anti-government protests, lies in the Iraqi capital Baghdad's Tehrir square as poeple walk by on February 1, 2020. (Sabah Arar/AFP)
February 1, 2020, 2:32 pm
Stalemate in Iraq as deadline to pick new PM looms
Political factions hold crisis talks after Iraqi president says he will name a premier unilaterally if they don’t agree on a candidate by Saturday
By Ammar Karim
An Iraqi soldier stands guard in front of smoke rising from a fire set by pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters in the US embassy compound, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, January 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
January 2, 2020, 11:04 pm
Elite Iraqi troops secure US embassy after attack
More than a dozen black armored vehicles of the American-trained Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service deploy in Baghdad’s Green Zone to reinforce security
By Ammar Karim
Newly elected Iraqi President Kurdish Barham Saleh (C) walks at the parliament in Baghdad on October 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Karim AMMAR)
October 3, 2018, 4:44 am
Kurdish moderate Barham Saleh elected Iraq president
Former chief of staff Fuad Hussein trounced in first national poll following ill-fated Kurdish independence referendum
By Ammar Karim
Iraqi model and Instagram starlet Tara Fares who was shot dead at the wheel of her Porsche convertible in central Baghdad on September 27, 2018 (Instagram)
October 2, 2018, 9:49 pm
Murders of four trailblazing Iraqi women spark fear of traditionalist backlash
All the high-profile women gunned down recently dared to openly break religious and cultural norms in the conservative Muslim country
By Ammar Karim
This file photo taken on February 19, 2018, shows French Jihadist Melina Boughedir carrying her son as she arrives to court in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)
June 3, 2018, 4:13 pm
Iraqi court sentences French woman to life for IS membership
Judge rules that Melina Boughedir knowingly enlisted in terror group, despite her claiming her husband tricked her into joining
By Ammar Karim
Illustrative: Iraqi and Turkish tanks take part in a military exercise near the border with Iraqi Kurdistan at Silopi district in Sirnak on September 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ilyas Akengin)
October 2, 2017, 9:38 pm
Iran, Iraq hold exercises near Iraqi Kurdistan
Joint military drills come as Islamic Republic halts fuel exports to Kurdish enclave over independence referendum
By Shwan Mohammad and Ammar Karim
An Iraqi man sits on the tarmac at the site of a car bomb attack, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on May 20, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI)
May 20, 2017, 9:05 pm
IS claims suicide bombings that kill 35 in Iraq
Bombings in Baghdad and Basra come as Iraqi forces battle Islamic State in Mosul to retake the country’s second city
By Ammar Karim
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