Civil defense teams rescued more than 45 people who became trapped when the fire broke out late Wednesday in the city of Kut.

United States government personnel in the country are forced to live and work under strict security due to the serious nature ...

Iraq approved a plan for its semi-autonomous Kurdish region to transfer oil to Baghdad, a step toward resuming exports that ...

A fire tore through a shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing more than 50 people, medical sources ...

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people.

It broke out late Wednesday night in the city of Kut, southwest of Baghdad's capital. Forty-five people trapped inside the ...

Iraqi officials said the Corniche Hypermarket building in Kut, where the deadly fire broke out, had a poor safety record. An investigation has been opened.

A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in southern Iraq has left at least 69 people dead and 11 others missing, the city's health authorities and two police sources told Reuters on Thursday.

Local officials blamed shoddy construction and a lack of preparedness for the scale of the tragedy at the newly opened building.

Iraqi officials say a fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people in eastern ...

At least 60 people have died and 11 others are missing following a fire at the Hypermarket Mall in the city of Kut, Iraq on ...

Reuters' footage of the aftermath of the overnight fire showed the blackened exterior of "Corniche Hypermarket" building.