Local officials blamed shoddy construction and a lack of preparedness for the scale of the tragedy at the newly opened ...

A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in southern Iraq has left at least 69 people dead and 11 others missing, the ...

An overnight fire at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed more than 60 people, according to the country's interior ministry.

Reuters' footage of the aftermath of the overnight fire showed the blackened exterior of "Corniche Hypermarket" building.

A fire at a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq’s Wasit province killed more than 60 people, including women and children, ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A fire at a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq’s Wasit province killed more than 60 people, including women and ...

Officials struggled Friday to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly shopping mall fire in Iraq, amid ongoing ...

BAGHDAD -- The governor of an Iraqi province where a fire in a shopping mall killed more than 60 people resigned Wednesday.

It broke out late Wednesday night in the city of Kut, southwest of Baghdad's capital. Forty-five people trapped inside the ...

A local governor in eastern Iraq says a fire at a mall killed 50 people. Wasit province Gov. Mohammed al-Mayyeh declared ...