Iraq reopened its airspace after the latest Iran-Israel exchange began to ease, signaling a tentative return to normal air traffic even as the wider regional security risk remained unresolved.

IRBIL, Iraq — Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias said on Tuesday they would begin handing in their weapons to the authorities, a major step in the new government’s effort to rein in militias that have long operated on their own even though they were nominally under state command.

"Iraq is not outside the war. It is already part of its geography," a former adviser to the Iraqi prime minister told Newsweek.

Iran's Fars News Agency, citing Iraqi sources, reported that the Harir US base in Erbil, northern Iraq, was targeted by a missile launched from Iran. According to the report, the strike hit the facility without immediate confirmation of casualties or damage.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has confirmed that it carried out strikes targeting positions belonging to Iranian Kurdish

Iran had fired missiles at Israel earlier on June 7, a first since a ceasefire took place in April. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has triggered one of the Middle East’s long-feared nightmares: a full-blown regional conflagration. The expansion of the conflict has had especially significant consequences for Iran’s western neighbor, Iraq.

The U.S. is urging the new Iraqi government to break with Iranian-linked groups and has sanctioned officials over their ties.

A mysterious drone crash in Iraq’s Karbala Governorate has triggered global speculation amid rising Middle East tensions in 2026. Iraqi officials confirmed that an unidentified drone went down in the desert area of Ain al-Tamr,

Iraq reopened its airspace on Monday, the country's civil aviation body said, following Iran's announcement that it was halting its military operation against Israel. The Civil Aviation Authority was reopening "Iraqi airspace to flights to and from all airports" and will continue to "monitor and assess the regional situation",

Iran has suspended all flights at Tehran's international airport, while Iraq has shut its airspace for 72 hours and Syria has halted airport operations for 12 hours amid rising tensions in the Middle East.

Fresh tensions have emerged in the Middle East after multiple drones, reportedly linked to Iran, were spotted flying over Iraqi airspace amid escalating hostilities between Tehran and Washington. Local residents captured videos of the drones,