Russia will supply a large batch of tanks to Iraq in 2017, reported TASS on Thursday.

'It's a big contract for a big batch. I cannot name the exact sum, the number of tanks is big,' Xinhua news agency quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin's aide for military technical cooperation, Vladimir Kozhin, as saying.

The contract may exceed $1 billion, a huge sum for Russia's Uralvagonzavod Corporation -- the supplier of the tanks.

Uralvagonzavod"...

A little more than three years ago, the ancient city of Mosul – Iraq’s second-largest -- was a strategically important northern metropolis on the Tigris, home to a diverse population of almost 2 million Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmen, Kurds, Yazidis and others.

Then ISIS arrived.

In June 2014, a relatively small band of radical Islamic insurgents defeated a significantly"...

Textron Aviation Defense has been awarded a $8.8 million contract to refurbish 15 T-6A Texan II training aircraft for the Iraqi Air Force, the Department of Defense announced on Tuesday.

The contract falls under foreign military sales and provides for the parts and work needed to reconstitute the Iraqi T-6A fleet for the training of future F-16 Fighting"...

A January intelligence product has served as the basis for a series of Congressional hearings into the issue of Russian meddling into American elections — and has taken on a near canonical quality that precludes any critical questioning of either the authors or their findings. There is one major problem, however: the supposedly definitive assessment was not that which it proclaimed to be.

On Jan. 6, the Office of the Director for National Intelligence"...

The Iraqi Parliament yesterday decided to question Salman Al-Jumaili, acting minister of trade, on suspicion of financial corruption.

A parliamentary source who asked not to be named said: “Parliament Speaker, Salim Al-Jubouri has informed the members of the Council in today’s meeting that 3 August was set to question Al-Jumaili.”

The source added: “Al-Jumaili"...