Iraq's World Cup striker Aymen Hussein was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. The move has once again put the spotlight on an issue that fans and critics had ...

Iraq’s head coach Graham Arnold couldn’t help but pause, smile and wave to the hundreds of Iraqi football fans gathered at Sydney airport to welcome back the Australian after he guided the Arab team ...

France arrive at Lincoln Financial Field having already dispatched Senegal 3-1 on Matchday 1, and a second win here would put ...

The Iraq national men's team hasn't played a World Cup in 40 years; a drought that ends Tuesday night, to the excitement of soccer fans in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Iraqi diaspora.

With the start of the World Cup under a week away, here's a closer look at Iraq and when the Lions of Mesopotamia will play ...

Iraq will travel to Mexico by private plane for their World Cup play-off despite calls from coach Graham Arnold to postpone the match amid the US-Israeli war with Iran, the Iraqi Football ...

Al-Ram, Palestine — Iraq's national team played its first-ever football match in the Palestinian territories on Saturday and beat the home side 3-0 in a friendly. Some 2,000 people attended the match ...

Senegal saved its best for last. Facing a must-win match in one of the World Cup’s toughest groups, the Lions of Teranga ...

By Ashraf Hamed Atta June 29 (Reuters) - The Iraqi Olympic Committee said on Monday it will launch an investigation into the ...

Rene Meulensteen is hoping to help Iraq qualify for their first World Cup since 1986 Phil Buckingham/The Athletic Iraq’s team hotel, to the south of Monterrey’s city centre, is tranquil and relaxed.

Mexico will forever be a touchstone for Iraqi football. Four decades after a Fernando Quirarte volley stamped their exit papers from the 1986 FIFA World Cup™, the Lions of Mesopotamia are back on the ...

Dyana Dawood. Dyana Dawood is of Assyrian background, and at just four years old she left Mosul with her family, fleeing the violence and instability that had devastated her city. They moved to Jordan ...