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IraqDocuments published in Israeli media and described as Hamas internal files outline a "strategic deception plan" allegedly prepared before the October 7, 2023 attack, acco…
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 announced that national para-javelin athlete Abdurrahman Ziyad Nizar won a silver medal at an international classification tou…
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 Public Municipalities has rejected claims by a lawmaker that one of its senior officials has ties to terroris…
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…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that an Iranian delegation will travel to Switzerland to monitor the implementation of US commitments under a rece…
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…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Central Electricity Distribution General Company issued an administrative order in Baghdad on Saturday reassigning the managers of two power statio…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih ez-Zeydi and US Presidential Special Envoy Tom Barrack signed a broad strategic agreement in mid-June 2026 aimed at restruc…
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — The annual Summer Fair opened in Erbil on Tuesday, drawing 125 companies, including 50 firms from Egypt and other Arab countries alongside local businesses …
SulaymaniyahBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi lawmaker Ghalib Mohammed Ali called on Saturday on the federal government and the Federal Commission of Integrity to open an urgent and official inv…
MüsennaERBIL, Iraq — The Kurdistan Greens Party has launched an environmental initiative calling on political parties and civil society organizations in the Kurdistan Region to …
BasraBASRA, Iraq — Security forces arrested a man within 24 hours after he fatally shot his neighbor and wounded his father in a dispute over a water hose in central Basra, a …
IraqPARIS, France — PARIS — France will hold an emergency meeting on Monday as an extreme heatwave sweeps across France, Germany and Italy, prompting authorities to activate …
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Hatam Anbia Central Headquarters, operating under the General Staff of the Armed Forces, announced on Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz has been clo…