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BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Zawra football club, based in the Iraqi capital, held its first training session of pre-season preparations, with 16 players taking part. Experienced left…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Communications Minister Mustafa Sind has ordered the blocking of all online betting and gambling platforms in the country, citing the need to curb …
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Abdulamir Rashid Yarallah, arrived at the Navy headquarters in the Basra operational area on Monday …
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah, arrived at the Naval Forces headquarters within the Basra Operations Responsibilit…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — Ichikawa, a city near Tokyo, has refused to allow a mosque to hold its long-running Eid al-Adha prayer in a public park, according to Kyodo News. The Chiba …
IraqU.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on July 12 that it completed a new round of airstrikes against multiple military targets in Iran. According to the command, the operat…
IraqKUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said recent attacks on Iran's Bushehr Province did not …
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Ministry accused the United States on Saturday of breaching nearly all provisions of an agreement signed between the two countries 25 days a…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry has rejected claims that 600,000 of its employees receive double salaries, calling the allegations unfounded. Major General Mikda…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — US Central Command (CENTCOM) has denied Iranian media reports that three US soldiers were killed in Iranian airstrikes in Kuwait, calling the claims Irani…
BasraTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on Saturday rejected reports that the Bushehr nuclear power plant had been targeted in an attack, saying the facility con…
BabilBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Defense said six suspected members of a human trafficking network were arrested in an operation in Hillah, the provincial capital of Ba…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — A three-year-old girl, Nai, was found dead in the water tank of a June Youth Center in southern Kirkuk on July 8, roughly two hours after she went missing …
SaladinSALADIN, Iraq — ZURICH — FIFA said the 2026 World Cup, hosted jointly by the United States, Canada and Mexico, has drawn 6,527,410 spectators, surpassing the previous two…
KarbalaKIRKUK, Iraq — Cultural figures in northern Iraq are marking the death anniversary of Sheikh Murad Zengi, a Kurdish religious scholar and poet regarded as a pioneer of Ku…
IraqFormer Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has drawn criticism from politicians in Spain and France after writing that France's national football team fields a squad wit…
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that a full-scale conflict in the Persian Gulf would have catastrophic consequences for the region's peoples,…
IraqMOSCOW — Russia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday that its air defense systems intercepted 220 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Moscow ti…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Hajj Commission said on Tuesday that electronic registration for the pilgrimage lottery will open on Wednesday, with applications restricted to cit…
IraqIranian authorities said a telecommunications executive was killed and two people were wounded in a US strike on Farur Island in the southern province of Hormozgan on Sun…
