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DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — The director of the Jadidat al-Shat subdistrict in Iraq’s Diyala province said a water project awarded to a French company in 2012 remains unfinished 14 y…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falah ez-Zeydi and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed agreements and memoranda of understanding in Tehran on Monday for t…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — A government source in Diyala province has denied reports that a person died from hemorrhagic fever in an eastern agricultural area, saying the claims are…
DiyalaBAQUBAH, Iraq — A member of Diyala provincial council has alleged that citizens are forced to wait in a narrow, overheated corridor outside the provincial tax office to m…
DiyalaDIYALA, Iraq — Diyala's health directorate said its inspection unit stopped a vehicle carrying 127,000 smuggled medicines from entering the provincial capital. Officials …
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Diyala police said on Friday that the killing of a Crime Prevention officer in the Celule district was a murder stemming from a financial dispute, not a s…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Military Intelligence Directorate said five people wanted on terrorism charges were arrested on Saturday in coordinated operations in Diyala, Kirku…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Two employees at the Diyala Health Directorate were detained on Tuesday as part of an ongoing corruption investigation, bringing the total number of deten…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Service said it has dismantled an organized electronic blackmail network in the Baladruz district of Diyala province, arresting t…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — The head of Iraq's Border Crossings Authority, Omar al-Waili, said on Saturday that preparations for the Arbaeen pilgrimage are continuing and that arrang…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry has initiated legal action against 3,950 officers, members and employees accused of abuse of authority, bribery and administrativ…
DiyalaDIYALA, Iraq — The head of Diyala's provincial council investment commission said roughly 99% of investments in the province are concentrated in housing compounds and com…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Federal Education Ministry has exempted Kurdish-language schools in Khanaqin district of Diyala province from a nationwide order to merge or close s…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Commission on Integrity said on Monday that electrical materials worth 2 billion Iraqi dinars were stolen from a branch of the state Electricity Di…
DiyalaBAQUBA, Iraq — A security source in Diyala province said 38 suicide cases have been recorded in the province from the beginning of 2026 to early July. The source said the…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Diyala province has declared Wednesday and Thursday, July 8 and 9, 2026, as official public holidays, suspending work across government institution…
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Diyala's health directorate said on Sunday that approximately 390,000 smuggled medicines were seized in the Kenaan subdistrict during a joint operation wi…
DiyalaDIYALA, Iraq — Khanaqin district governor Jawad Faydullah has given private electricity generator owners one hour to resume operations, warning that non-compliant generat…
DiyalaBAQUBA, Iraq — Security sources reported two separate suicide incidents in Iraq's Diyala and Nineveh provinces. In Diyala, a fifth-grade high school student took his own …
DiyalaBAQUBAH, Iraq — Two separate incidents were reported in Iraq's Diyala province on Wednesday. A 17-year-old drowned while swimming in Lake Hamrin, according to a local sec…
