Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has called for the "immediate" execution of all convicted "terrorists" on death row after the bodies of eight members of the country's security forces thought to ...

BAGHDAD — Iraq announced on Monday that a high-level security officer during the rule of Saddam Hussein has been hanged for his involvement in the 1980 killing of a prominent Shiite cleric. The ...

Saudi Arabia has executed multiple Iraqi nationals convicted of attempting to smuggle narcotics into the kingdom through its Northern Borders region, according to an official statement issued on ...

At least 1,518 executions were carried out worldwide in 2024, up 32 percent from the year before, according to Amnesty ...

Gunmen wearing military uniforms pulled seven people from a mosque in Baghdad late Monday and shot them execution-style, officials said. The attack capped a day of heightened violence, in which 18 ...