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AnbarBAGHDAD, Iraq — Anbar Province Police said on Saturday that officers detained a suspect accused of killing a citizen in the province. The arrest was carried out by the Ka…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Communications and Media Commission said a Baghdad-based journalist who appeared on a local television program criticizing the Popular Mobilization…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Foreign Ministry summoned Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad, Mohammed Kazem Ali Sadiq, following publications by some Iranian diplomatic missions cont…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Finance Minister Faleh al-Sari said public sector salaries are fully guaranteed and that there is no plan to issue payments every 45 days. He said the mon…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Air Force and Gaz al-Shimal drew 1-1 in Week 3 of the Iraq Stars League at Captain Sherar Haidar Stadium in Baghdad, with the match kicking off at 21:45 l…
IraqDAMASCUS, Syria — The Syrian presidency is preparing two decrees under which Mazlum Abdi, the commander of the formally dissolved Syrian Democratic Forces, will be appoin…
IraqBRUSSELS, Belgium — Belgium's food safety agency said at least 306 people have been infected with salmonella traced to a poultry farm in the country's northern Flanders r…
AnbarBAGHDAD, Iraq — New US sanctions targeting transactions with Iran’s designated sectors could expose countries, companies and financial institutions to secondary sanctions…
IraqBRUSSELS — The European Union is reviewing possible sanctions against Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir over his statements on Gaza, EU foreign policy sp…
SaladinBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Education has announced that Iraqi students who completed their first-term exams in Iraqi schools will take their second-term exams at …
NajafNAJAF, Iraq — Police in Najaf have arrested a suspect who was wanted in more than 150 criminal cases, a security source with the Najaf Provincial Police Directorate said …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi archaeologist says the U.S. administration is examining the ancient Sumerian "Amargi" system as it searches for solutions to its public debt cris…
IraqRussia's Defense Ministry said on Friday that its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones between 08:00 and 20:00 Moscow time. In a daily statem…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's draft 2027 federal budget allocates 20 trillion dinars, roughly $15 billion, to complete long-delayed infrastructure and service projects carried o…
NajafNAJAF, Iraq — Najaf Police Directorate said investigators identified the suspect in a hit-and-run case in which an unidentified body was dumped in an isolated area of the…
IraqMazlum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), announced at an evening press conference that the group has been formally dissolved and that its forces will…
BaghdadTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament, said the United States will be defeated in the economic sphere just as it has been in mili…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Civil National Dialogue Coordination Committee hosted a discussion at the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad attended by lawmakers and officials to debate the g…
IraqMOUNTGOMERY, Ala. — A 26-year-old U.S. social media creator, Alicia Raching, was killed in a two-vehicle collision in Montgomery, Alabama, local police said. The crash al…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Security forces in Kirkuk arrested one of the city's most prominent drug traffickers in an operation carried out by an anti-narcotics unit, security source…