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IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Unverified videos circulating on social media appear to show a US strike near Iranshahr Airport in Iran's southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province. Th…
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…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Long queues formed outside Kadhimiya Hospital on Baghdad's Karkh side on Monday as citizens waited to obtain entry cards, with patients complaining of ove…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad Mayor Ammar Musa Kazim on Monday opened the Hibiyya and Hadra main sewage treatment plants in the Karkh district after completing renovation works…
IraqPittsburgh — Research led by dermatologist Dr. Daniel Kaplan at the University of Pittsburgh has identified a cellular mechanism explaining why scratching insect bites ex…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — More than 10 million people took part in the funeral ceremonies of Ali Husseini Khomeini in the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala, according to initial un…
NajafNAJAF, Iraq — Iraq's Prime Ministerial Office chief and head of the mourning committee, Ihsan Yasin al-Awadi, said funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Najaf …
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — A drone strike hit a camp belonging to an Iranian Kurdish opposition group in a mountainous area northeast of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, se…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia'bar Ali al-Sudani's government is working to establish a joint investment fund with Turkey, the premier's office said o…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraqi parliament has begun an in absentia questioning of the head of the Iraqi Investment Authority during the second session of the first legislative…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Wisdom Movement (Hikma) said Monday it fully supports ongoing Iraqi state efforts against corruption, backing the role of the government, judiciary an…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Baghdad Provincial Council has denied reports that the brother of detained lawmaker Heyat al-Najaf was taken into custody. In a statement, the council…
BaghdadTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — A member of Iran's Supreme Cyberspace Council, Ezatollah Zargami, has warned that Iran will set fire to oil wells in Gulf countries if US strikes …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's General Directorate for Drugs and Psychotropic Substances seized 51 kilograms of Captagon pills in two separate operations in Baghdad and arrested …
IraqKUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Kuwait's military said its air defense systems intercepted and destroyed hostile aerial targets in the country's airspace in the early hours of Tues…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein traveled to Kuwait on Tuesday for his first official visit to a Gulf state since the new government was formed, a gove…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Ziyadani said tanks were deployed during the Dawn Operation to close off Baghdad's Green Zone, in remarks broadcast on television…
IraqFIFA President Gianni Infantino is under growing international pressure over allegations that his political support for U.S. President Donald Trump violated FIFA's ethics…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's parliament voted on Tuesday to remove Haydar Mekki from his post as head of the National Investment Commission. A brief statement issued by the par…
