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MosulMOSUL, Iraq — Health authorities in Nineveh province have confirmed two cases of hemorrhagic fever in siblings from the Bashika area east of Mosul, the provincial health …
BasraTEHRAN, Iran — LONDON — The International Maritime Organization has rejected Iran's recent actions in the Strait of Hormuz and called on member states not to recognize th…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — US President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that Iran had agreed to continue talks, and that Washington had told Tehran "the ceasefire is over" wit…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Adviser Qasim al-Araji marked the anniversary of Mosul's liberation from ISIS, calling the city's recapture a turning point for a…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Saturday opened the Al-Rahman Magnetic Resonance and Spiral Tomography Center at the Ibn al-Battar Cardiac Surg…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A popular movement formed in opposition to the Khor Abdullah Agreement called on Friday on the Iraqi government to take a firm stance against Kuwait follo…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi security forces detained Oil Ministry Director General Hussein Talib on July 8 as part of a wide-ranging corruption investigation into alleged irreg…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Police in Baghdad's Karkh district have arrested a pickpocket known by the alias "Three Thieves," described as one of the capital's most dangerous street …
BaghdadBASRA, Iraq — A fishermen's association in Basra's Faw district is demanding that the Iraqi government hold Kuwaiti security forces accountable for the death of fisherman…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's vehicle fleet has surpassed seven million, with more than four million of those vehicles concentrated in Baghdad, a figure that has reignited debat…
DuhokDUHOK, Iraq — Duhok Investigation and Evidence Collection Committee member Colonel Shakir Mahmoud Mirani said work is continuing with relevant institutions to complete fi…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — Iraq's National Security Service said it arrested 12 suspects in Basra over alleged customs fraud linked to large commercial shipments. The agency said the …
BabilWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has removed the two remaining federal officials overseeing an agency that supports the accuracy and sec…
MaysanBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Commission on Integrity said three employees at a state grain silo in Maysan province were detained on suspicion of extorting money from farmers de…
SaladinBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Federal Integrity Commission said three employees at a state grain silo in Maysan province were arrested for accepting bribes from farmers deliveri…
AnbarNAJAF, Iraq — Najaf's Friday preacher, Sadreddin Kabancı, on Friday rejected legal proposals that would allow corruption defendants to avoid prison by returning stolen pu…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — numerous bridges, tunnels, schools, hospitals and investment projects announced in recent years once pointed to an intense construction wave centered on B…
BaghdadWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — A US-based think tank said Iran's influence in Iraq is rooted in geographic, political, cultural and sectarian ties and cannot be…
NajafMASHHAD, Iran — Two members of Iran's Basij paramilitary force were killed in an armed attack during the funeral and burial ceremonies of former Iranian Supreme Leader Al…
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Thousands of residents took to the streets of Kobani in northern Syria on Thursday to protest a sign installed by the Syrian government at the entrance to…
