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BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that crime rates have dropped markedly across the country, with Baghdad recording the steepest decline. Bri…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's chicken meat and table egg production fell in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to the Central Statistical Organization's 2025 Poultr…
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad Mayor Ammar Musa Kazim inspected construction at the Antar Square Bridge site, where work has surpassed 40% completion, according to a statement f…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s Ministry of Construction and Housing will open online applications on Sunday for loans from the Iraq Housing Fund, the ministry announced. Applicat…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Most Iraqi state banks have effectively suspended their lending operations, a senior source said on Saturday, citing the absence of clear credit plans for…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Communications and Media Commission issued eight sanctions over three days in mid-August, targeting television channels, programs, journalists and …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Ministry coordination spokesman and Chief of Staff spokesman Sabah al-Numan said Wednesday that September 30 will represent a strategic turnin…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi President Nizar Amidi said more than 14,000 accumulated death sentences have been pending at his office since he took over the presidency. Speaking …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Federal Integrity Commission announced on August 21, 2026, that a comprehensive cross-check of National Pension Fund records identified roughly 16,…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's economy remains heavily dependent on hydrocarbons, with oil accounting for 88% of government revenue, 91% of merchandise exports and 53% of real gr…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Sheikh Humam Hamoudi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Supreme Council, said at a Dialogue Forum event that Iraq must establish an army guided by a national rath…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. dollar's selling price against the Iraqi dinar eased slightly on Saturday in Iraq's free market, according to local exchange data. In Baghdad's o…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Protests against Iraq's Shia Islamist ruling establishment and its affiliated militias have continued across Iraqi cities, reaching 297 demonstrations wit…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, who also leads the Reconstruction and Development Coalition, met in Baghdad with a group of technocrats to review…
BaghdadTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — Iran has approved the passage of Iraqi oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz following a request from the Iraqi government, the Iranian state n…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad's Karkh Police Directorate, through its Criminal Combat Department, said it has dismantled a gang known as "Abu Shennib" that specialized in motor…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The director of Iraq's Military Intelligence, Lieutenant General Hassan al-Silevawi, has reaffirmed that standing orders banning intelligence personnel fr…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A fire broke out in the neonatal intensive care unit of Numan Hospital in Baghdad and was brought under control, according to security sources. The blaze …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's government is preparing a comprehensive reform package aimed at reducing the economy's vulnerability to oil price swings, the prime minister's econ…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbusi said a process to bring firearms under state control will formally begin at the end of September, calling it …
