The country's corruption challenge is structural and endemic

Iraqi political officials have been arrested on corruption charges. Iraq’s state-run news agency reported that the arrests are based on statements by former Deputy Minister of Oil…

Iraqi political officials have been arrested on corruption charges

BAGHDAD, June 28 (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as…

Iraqi security forces launched a series of raids in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone early Sunday, arresting several politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials…

Large-scale operation carried out at dawn in Green Zone and several neighbourhoods in Baghdad, security source says.

Several Iraqi political officials were arrested early Sunday on corruption charges, Iraq’s state-run Iraqi News Agency reported.

Security services enter the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad as the new prime minister steps up action to tackle the problem

Iraqi security forces sealed off all entrances to the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone early Sunday and carried out raids inside the compound that houses key government…

Fifteen of the 47 names have been announced by state media

The move follows testimony by a detained deputy oil minister that allegedly implicated a wider circle of officials

Iraq arrests 47 officials in an anti-corruption push by Prime Minister Zaidi ahead of his upcoming Washington visit.

BAGHDAD, June 29 — Iraqi authorities arrested 47 officials, including members of parliament, on Sunday as part of an anti-graft campaign in the corruption-plagued country, state...

Al Zaidi says 'no immunity' for any corrupt official and pledges to chase those who 'steal the money of orphans and the poor'

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi vowed on June 29 there will be “no immunity for any corrupt person,” saying his government will pursue those who steal public funds.

Security forces arrested 47 politicians but it remains to be seen if crackdown is more than just political theatre

The raid is the country's ethno-sectarian system defending itself in the vocabulary of reform

New PM Ali al-Zaidi's arrest of 47 officials is welcome, but the rot runs through the system that put him in power.

The country's corruption challenge is structural and endemic