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IraqCHICAGO — Research presented at the ENDO 2026 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Chicago suggests that GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of drugs widely used for w…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — The Karbala Sports Club interim administration canceled its election congress on Saturday after no administrative board could be formed, the interim board…
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — Kurdistan Region Interior Minister Reber Ahmed said Prime Minister Masrour Barzani is "very firm" on the issue of oil companies' operations, and that the Er…
IraqZURICH — FIFA has outlined the tiebreaker criteria that will determine which teams advance from the group stage of the 2026 World Cup. Under the format, the top two teams…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — Authorities in Karbala have declared Thursday a public holiday across official institutions to mark the 9th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islami…
BaghdadPARIS, France — France's meteorological agency has issued its highest-level red heat alert for 35 departments across the central and western parts of the country, effecti…
BaghdadNAJAF, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of Iraq’s Shiite National Movement, said on Saturday that attempts to portray Imam Hussein as a rebel against the ruling Yazid ibn M…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved to end the conflict with Iran as quickly as possible because of concerns about the war's impact on t…
IraqIsraeli media have published internal documents purportedly belonging to Hamas that describe a "strategic deception plan" said to have been prepared before the group's Oc…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Karin Kamangr, a national artistic gymnast from Iran's Kurdistan province, has become the first female gymnast from the region to qualify for the Asian Art…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Paralympic Committee said national para-fencer Abdulrahman Ziyad Nizar won a silver medal at the international "Satellite" Classification Tournamen…
IraqKYIV, Ukraine — An air raid alert was issued across Ukraine on Saturday evening, with the country's official nationwide alert system warning of a missile threat to the ca…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — A 1,500-year-old church in the western desert of Karbala's Ayn al-Tamr district is awaiting restoration, Iraqi officials said, describing the site as one …
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities has rejected a lawmaker's claim that one of its senior officials has ties to terrorist organiz…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Strategic Center for Human Rights, based in Baghdad, said on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought that Iraq is among th…
IraqIranian parliament speaker and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Switzerland on Saturday to join talks with the Un…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — Iran's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that an Iranian delegation will travel to Switzerland to monitor implementation of US commitments under …
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said 17 people were detained in the western city of Ilam on charges of running and belonging to an external-linked “destructiv…
IraqIsrael's Health Ministry said a traveler who returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been placed in isolation at Rambam Hospital in Haifa on suspicion of E…
MosulMOSUL, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Directorate has taken over the management of external control points and transit routes connecting Mosul to other cities, according…