Iraq

Top officials from Iraq and Turkey engaged in discussions aimed at bolstering their trade ties. The Minister of Planning for Iraq, Muhammad Ali Tamim, held talks with Turkey's Minister of Trade, Omer Polat, on Tuesday, focusing on…

TotalEnergies has formally committed to executing four expansive energy ventures. Basra Oil Company (BOC) of Iraq revealed that TotalEnergies, in line with an accord reached with the Iraqi government last July, has taken on the…

Iraq's Minister of Environment, Nizar Amidi, has disclosed today a significant achievement in the country's efforts to eliminate landmines, reporting that 59% of the previously contaminated areas have now been successfully cleared. …

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has granted approval for the forthcoming signing of a declaration of intent between the Iraqi and British Ministries of Interior. This development unfolded during a meeting held on Monday,…

On Sunday, Iraq unveiled a stone tablet dating back 2,800 years, which had been returned by Italy. This significant event comes as the war-torn nation endeavors to recover antiquities that were looted from its territory. The tablet,…

Germany has pledged to help protect Iraq’s drinking water as Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Africa with his sights on clean energy. Berlin is to invest €62 million ($68.5 million) to shield water supplies in Iraq’s southern…

Iraq’s premier summoned the central bank governor Tuesday amid worries sparked by a currency drop against the dollar, with lawmakers calling for an extraordinary session of parliament. One US dollar traded at 1,580 Iraqi dinars…

President Barham Saleh on Tuesday encouraged early legislative elections to settle Iraq political crisis that escalated into deadly clashes this week, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. Early elections, less than a year…

Iran has halted all flights to Iraq due to the ongoing unrest. Iran closed its borders with Iraq and urged its citizens to avoid traveling there, a senior official said on Tuesday, amid an eruption of violence after Shia cleric…

Protest threats have escalated into panic in Iraq. Iraqi security forces have erected concrete barriers as panic took hold of the Iraqi street Monday ahead of counter-protests planned by Shia political rivals that many feared…

A human rights body has announced that at least eight civilians were abducted and shot dead in Saladin province of Iraq. According to a written statement by Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor Thursday October 22, 2020, "Armed groups…

A United Nations mines expert has said that nearly 3 billion square metres in Iraq are contaminated with mines and remnants of war. The head of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq, Pehr Lodhammar,said that "According to…

Iraqi forces have arrested 26 suspected Daesh and ISIS militants in a security swoop in the northern Nineveh province. This was disclosed in a statement released by the country's defense ministry on Saturday October 3, 2020. The statement…

Iraqi forces have arrested 26 suspected Daesh and ISIS militants in a security swoop in the northern Nineveh province. This was disclosed in a statement released by the country's defense ministry on Saturday October 3, 2020. The statement…

Iraqi forces have arrested 26 suspected Daesh and ISIS militants in a security swoop in the northern Nineveh province. This was disclosed in a statement released by the country's defense ministry on Saturday October 3, 2020. The statement…

Iran and Qatar energy ministers have come together to discuss joining the two countries’ electricity networks via a submarine cable. In a virtual meeting held on Monday September 28, 2020, the Qatari minister, Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, said…

An employee of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) has been found dead with a sharp object injury in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk province. While disclosing this on Sunday September 27, 2020, an Iraqi police officer said the…

Iraqi security forces have arrested two militants from the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group during raids in the capital Baghdad. A statement released by the country's defense ministry on Sunday September 20, 2020, stated that the two militants…

Two Iraqi officials have received a seven-year jail term from the Iraqi's Commission of Integrity over mismanagement of more than seven million dinars ($5.8 million) of public funds. The commission in a statement on Sunday August 16, 2020,…

Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, has announced the release of the Hella Mewis, the kidnapped German activist in Iraq. While disclosing this on Friday July 24, 2020, Rasool stated that the…

Iraq has announced that its airports would resume international flights starting from 23 July, 2020, as the country begins to relax restriction measures against the coronavirus spread. Airports within Kurdistan region are also parts of the…

Iraqi police have found the lifeless body of Karrar Ibrahim, the former goalkeeper of the Olympic football team, inside his car. While disclosing this on Saturday July 11, 2020, the Iraqi security forces stated that Ibrahim’s body was…

The Iraqi military said on Sunday that a child was injured in a residential house struck by a rocket that targeted Baghdad's fortified Green Zone where the U.S. Embassy is based. A military statement disclosed that the house was damaged…

Ali Allawi, Iraq’s new finance minister, in what was his first trip abroad since becoming minister visited Saudi Arabia on Saturday 23rd May 2020 seeking financial assistance to help his country out of the financial impasse engendered by…

In more than five months without a prime minister, Iraq’s parliament has approved the appointment of Mustafa al-Kadhimim, former Iraqi intelligence chief, as the new prime minister. The prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi is the real Iraqi…

Iraqi Police has arrested two teenage boys for allegedly raping and killing a seven-year-old boy in Mosul. Officials found a dead young boy in a toilet corridor of a mosque in the Zummar district of Nineveh province on Saturday where the…

A 20 year old Malak Haider Al-Zubaidi, wife to Muhammad Al- Mayahli has been allegedly abused and burnt by her husband and his family. This gruesome act was contained in a video posted social media. The video, which showed Malak covered…

The United States has launched airstrikes against five weapon storage facilities across Iraq. American officials who disclosed this said the airstrikes, which were launched on Thursday March 12th, 2020, was in retaliation for a deadly…

As fears over the rapidly spreading outbreak COVID-19 grows, Iraq has banned its citizens from traveling to nine countries. The country's Health Minister, Jaafar Allawi, disclosed this on Wednesday 26th February, 2020. He stated that…

Brigadier General Ali Balali, the Chief Adviser to Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has disclosed this. He disclosed this on Thursday 20th, 2020. He claimed the killing was a retaliation to the attack on the Ain Al- Assad military…