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 ...

In Iraq’s preparations to face Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland, not to mention Sadio Mane and Michael Olise, it would have been easy to get hung up on individuals. Head coach Graham Arnold has ...

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.

Iraq national team head coach Graham Arnold has requested a delay in his country's World Cup playoff later this month amid a tumultuous situation across the Middle East. The United States and Israel ...

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.

The Iraq men’s soccer team have drawn up new travel plans for their crucial World Cup qualifying play-off, easing concerns they will be unable to compete in Mexico at the end of this month. Iraq are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

London: The Iraqi ‌Olympic Committee said on Monday it will launch an investigation into the national team’s disappointing World Cup campaign and outline measures to prevent a repeat of such poor ...

Aymen Hussein (L) celebrates alongside Iraq head coach Graham Arnold (R) in Basra, Iraq, on November 18, 2025. [Tiba Sadeg / Middle East Images / AFP] Iraq coach Graham Arnold pleaded with FIFA on ...

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 ...