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

From the Middle East, we verified footage of the deadly fire in Kut, Iraq, which is now known to have killed at least 61 ...

Photographs and videos on local media showed the five-story Corniche Hypermarket Mall engulfed in flames only a week after it ...

A fire at a newly opened shopping centre in eastern Iraq has killed more than 60 people, including women and children, Iraqi ...

Iraq has detained six local officials and suspended other public employees following a fire that killed 61 people at a ...

Iraq has detained six local officials and suspended other public employees following a fire that killed 61 people at a ...

While the cause of Wednesday's blaze has not yet been determined, officials blamed lack of safety standards in the building ...

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities have said, as grief-stricken families searched for missing ...

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

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 ...

Officials in Iraq are struggling to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly fire at a shopping mall.