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BaghdadTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said his upcoming visit to Iraq will include concrete steps to strengthen joint security and m…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Civil Defense Directorate said one person was killed and four were rescued after five vehicles collided in a chain-reaction crash on the road to Mu…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Director General of Baghdad Municipality's Administrative and Financial Department, Basim Shelsh, has been detained, according to reports on Tuesday. …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Federal Integrity Commission said a court has sentenced a defendant to three years of hard imprisonment for defrauding a citizen by impersonating a…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Baghdad Operations Command said security authorities closed an unlicensed paint factory in the Abeydi area in eastern Baghdad and dismantled 47 unauth…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Interior said 32 people found to be in violation of the country's residency law have been deported through Baghdad and Basra internatio…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani met with UN Resident Coordinator for Iraq Peter Hawkins in Baghdad to discuss cooperation between Iraq and t…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The family of a soldier stationed at the Taji military camp in northern Baghdad said he was tortured to death after uncovering a theft at an arms depot. T…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Higher Judicial Council released monthly court statistics for July 2026, reporting 167 human trafficking cases filed nationwide during the month. T…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's total revenue reached 35.946 trillion dinars by the end of June under the federal budget, the Iraqi Ministry of Finance said, with oil revenues acc…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A Chinese-produced film, "Once in the Middle East" (Bir Zamanlar Ortadoğu'da), has grossed approximately $148 million since its release across China on Au…
BaghdadTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly, is scheduled to visit Baghdad on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, heading a …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Farmers in Iraq's Maysan, Najaf, Diwaniyah and Wasit provinces returned to the streets on Sunday to protest delayed government payments after a deadline e…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Justice activated an automated system on Tuesday at the Kadhimiya First Land Registry Directorate in Baghdad, moving property registrat…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Ali Ziyadi has appointed Ali Abd Rida al-Alewan as president of the Iraq Trade Bank and Bilal al-Hamdani as director general of the Iraq De…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Federal courts across 15 Iraqi cities recorded 18,351 marriage contracts in July, excluding the Kurdistan Region, according to data released Tuesday by th…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Commission on Integrity said it dismantled a 21-person network that illegally collected payments near major oil refineries in the country. Accordin…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. dollar traded lower against the Iraqi dinar in Baghdad on Tuesday morning, while moving higher in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Go…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Owners of asphalt factories gathered outside the Oil Ministry in Baghdad to protest delays in heavy fuel supply, saying their plants meet all required con…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq ranked 10th worldwide in sunflower seed imports in 2025, with import value reaching $157.5 million, according to researcher and financial analyst Ali…
