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BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi officials have raised public calls for state sovereignty and the collection of weapons held outside the state when pressure from Washington increase…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Kurdistan Region's presidency said relations between Erbil and Baghdad are at a strong level and continuing to develop, and expressed readiness to hel…
BaghdadBASRA, Iraq — Private companies operating in Basra's oil sector have protested being paid in Iraqi dinars for dollar-denominated receivables under their contracts, instea…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's state-owned Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has relocated its IDC-51 drilling rig from the Zubair oil field in the southern city of Basra to the East …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The 17th International Agricultural Mechanization, Animal Production and Food Industry Week opened at the Baghdad International Fair grounds with 209 loca…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — August temperatures exceeding 50°C across southern Iraq have pushed the date harvest season into its peak, with agricultural specialist Jasim Mohammed say…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq will attend an international natural gas and liquefied natural gas expo scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, according to a source at Iraq'…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Police in Baghdad's Karkh district arrested an elderly suspect accused of stealing bicycles from multiple homes in the city's University area, the Karkh P…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zaydi received Libyan Foreign Minister Tahir Salim al-Bagur, who is serving in an acting capacity, and an accompanying d…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Shiite leaders within Iraq's Coordination Framework have agreed to send a service and retirement law for members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih al-Zeydi received an invitation to visit Tripoli from Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah, his office sai…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A traffic police commissioner was seriously injured on Wednesday when a speeding vehicle struck him during duty in the Mansur district of western Baghdad,…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Japanese archaeology teams are preparing to return to Iraq to conduct scientific excavations and provide hands-on field training to Iraqi researchers, acc…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — More than 30 Iraqi lawmakers have signed a request to reduce passport fees, MP Ibtisam al-Hilali said. She said the lawmakers plan to submit a written app…
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad's Civil Defense Directorate said a fire that broke out at a commercial warehouse in the central Bab Sharqi district has been extinguished, with no…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Contract civil servants from several Iraqi cities gathered outside the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad on Sunday to demand conversion to permanent governme…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Finance and Economy submitted its August salary payroll to Iraq's Federal Ministry of Finance on Tuesday, …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Employees of the General Company for Construction Materials, affiliated with Iraq's Ministry of Trade, held a protest outside the company's headquarters i…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — One person was killed and five suspects were detained after a dispute over the cutting of a fiber optic cable escalated into a stabbing in the Ubaydi neig…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraq Ecology Observatory said about 55% of the country's electricity generation is lost during transmission and distribution due to unauthorized conne…
