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ErbilERBIL, Iraq — Erbil police and the Asayish Directorate have arrested a suspect identified as S.E. for allegedly operating a human trafficking network targeting young girl…
AnbarANBAR, Iraq — Researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Southern Carolina examined data from more than 23,000 middle-aged and older adults to study…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Baghdad Investment Authority has introduced new regulations governing the sale of apartments and housing units within investment-licensed residential …
DiyalaBAGHDAD, Iraq — Residents of the Algeria Bridge area in Baghdad protested on Saturday over prolonged electricity outages as summer temperatures climbed. Locals said the d…
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran's Revolutionary Guards set up covert cells in southern Iraq to launch attacks on Gulf states during the latest round of military confrontation in the…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's General Directorate of Meteorology forecast clear, sunny conditions across the country on Friday, June 19, 2026, with summer heat persisting throug…
SaladinBASRA, Iraq — The Basra office of Iraq's High Commission for Human Rights has called on the federal government to step up efforts to enforce the law and protect human rig…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — International credit rating agency Standard & Poor's left Iraq's sovereign credit rating unchanged, keeping the country in the high-risk bond category. The …
SaladinBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) reversed an earlier appointment and reinstated Ali El-Akayli as commander of operations in Samarra, reversing a chan…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Baghdad's Karkh Criminal Court sentenced Iraqi politician Mishan al-Juburi to one year in prison on Thursday. The ruling came in a case filed by former Ir…
AnbarBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) said on Thursday evening that one of its operations in Anbar province resulted in the detention of an Is…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — A mourning procession reenacting the entry of Hussein's caravan into Karbala was held in the Iraqi city on the second day of Muharram, organized by the He…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry has deployed 35 officers and personnel to the citizenship and civil registry office on Mosul's right bank, hours after the unit r…
SulaymaniyahSULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — Only 4% of patients who visit public health facilities in the Kurdistan Region can obtain the medication they need from the state, according to the s…
SaladinDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A peace agreement between US President Donald Trump and Iran, mediated by Pakistan, is structured as a 60-day ceasefire requiring both sides…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — BAGHDAD — Iraq's Faili Kurdish community, displaced and stripped of identity under the Baath regime in the 1980s, remains politically fragmented between B…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Electricity dismissed the head of the Karkh electricity sector in Baghdad and removed three officials from the ministry's Abu Ghraib br…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Police in Baghdad's Karkh district arrested a man who fired a gun into the air for display, the Karkh Police Command announced. The statement said the op…
KarbalaHALABJA, Iraq — A young girl from Karbala who disappeared during a visit to a waterfall in Halabja was found dead on Tuesday, nine days after she went missing, local auth…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Pharmacies in Baghdad and Anbar suspended operations for several hours on Monday after the Iraqi Pharmacists Syndicate called for a timed closure to press…
