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IraqOTTAWA, Canada — The Canadian government said Wednesday it will impose retaliatory customs duties ranging from 15% to 50% on a set of US imports, following the failure of…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi has ordered that a single national identity card be used in Iraq's next general elections, according to a written statement fr…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States is monitoring "every inch" of the Strait of Hormuz, Mount Khor and three previously…
BaghdadERBIL, Iraq — The Kurdistan Region's Ministry of Peshmerga announced on Wednesday that the mission of German military advisors, deployed as part of efforts to counter ISI…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Advisory said security forces arrested a man who impersonated public officials and state figures to contact government institutio…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that ending war and preserving social unity are among his government's top priorities, telling reporters that Ir…
IraqA new study says the global fertility rate fell below the population replacement threshold in 2026, marking the first such decline on record, even outside periods of war …
DuhokDUHOK, Iraq — Communities across the city of Duhok and its surrounding districts and villages marked Mawlid al-Nabi on Wednesday with large public gatherings, as mosques …
IraqJERUSALEM — Israeli forces stormed and seized a UNRWA vocational training center in the Qalandia refugee camp in northern East Jerusalem, the U.N. agency for Palestinian …
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said he has directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to substantially scale back joint military exercise…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration is "seriously considering" renaming Lake Ontario, on the US-Can…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — President Donald Trump has pushed forward on three policy fronts in the past 48 hours, with military action against suspected drug traffickers…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A large fire broke out at heavy oil storage tanks serving brick factories in the Nahrawan area, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq's Civil Defense Directorate sai…
IraqDAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's Ministry of Economy and Industry is reviewing existing economic and industrial agreements with neighboring countries and weighing new deals aime…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A broad security conference was held at the Baghdad Operations Command headquarters to review the implementation of the Baghdad security plan, with senior…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — TEHRAN — Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council President Faiq Zeydan met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, according to a wri…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has announced the removal of a 10-year age requirement for cochlear implant recipients and people with hearin…
IraqDAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mazloum Abdi and Ilham Ahmed, co-chair of the Foreign Relations Department of th…
IraqU.S. President Donald Trump said the humanitarian crisis in Iran must be brought to an end without delay, urging the international community not to remain indifferent to …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi writer and journalist Ali Hamza al-Rubaie released his new book "To Those Yet Unborn.. Letters of Dream and Contemplation" in Baghdad on Tuesday, pu…
