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BaghdadARAR, Iraq — More than 18,000 pilgrims traveled through Iraq's Arar border crossing during the hajj travel period, according to the Iraq Border Gates Authority. The auth…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq has been awarded two slots in the Gulf Champions League for the 2026-2027 season following the Gulf Football Union's upgrade of Iraqi clubs to Catego…
BaghdadANTALYA, Turkey — Iraq's under-23 football team played a friendly match Friday against Russia's under-21 national team at Antalya Stadium. The match kicked off at 5:30 p.…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has called on the European Union to assume a more active role in ending the ongoing war. Hussein announced that Iraq w…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq held European champion Spain to a 1-1 draw in a friendly match as both teams continue their preparations for the 2026 World Cup. Ferran Torres gave …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The United Nations mission in Libya issued a strong condemnation Wednesday following threats against its staff and attacks on its offices in Baghdad. Prot…
BaghdadWASHINGTON, United States — The U.S. Republican Party has welcomed decisions by Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zeydi to place weapons under state monopoly, saying Washington…
BaghdadWASHINGTON, United States — Kazım el-Fartusi, spokesperson for the Seyyid al-Shuhada Battalions operating within Iraq's Hashd al-Shabi paramilitary force, said Tuesday th…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi Transport Ministry in Baghdad has issued a statement explaining a decision to assign personnel from the Electricity Ministry as drivers to some …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq will begin implementing the Development Road project in the coming months, according to the head of the Iraqi State Ports Company. Farhan al-Fartusi…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran's decision-making on Iraq has shifted to a military council under new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, departing from the structure established by hi…
BaghdadAMMAN, Jordan — BAGHDAD — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein spoke by phone with his Irish counterpart Helen McEntee, proposing that the European Union initiate a politi…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A Kataib Hezbollah security official said the group and allied resistance factions have no intention of laying down their weapons until all objectives are…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's security apparatus began distributing more than 700 residential plots to its personnel in Baghdad on Tuesday, marking the fourth phase of a housing…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi officials say electrical faults account for roughly 70 percent of the country's annual fire incidents, which cause billions of dinars in damage each…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The International Monetary Fund has sharply revised down its growth forecast for Iraq, projecting the country's economy will contract 6.8 percent in 2026,…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraq Court of Cassation announced that the National Judicial Coordination Center chaired an international dialogue on terrorism held in The Hague on J…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Oil Ministry has designated the ongoing gasoline shortage as its highest priority, according to the ministry's newly appointed spokesman Selim er-R…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi mobile phone companies have resumed a practice of seizing and reselling unused phone numbers, exposing thousands of subscribers to privacy breaches …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Baghdad Social Protection Authority has completed verification of data for approximately 7 million citizens enrolled in its social assistance program …
