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BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's General Directorate of Customs has begun a staff rotation program and taken delivery of sonar devices in line with directives from Prime Minister a…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's youth unemployment rate has reached between 28% and 32%, among the highest in the region, despite the country's large oil revenues and broad fiscal…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — BAGHDAD — The histories of the Kurds and other Zagros peoples have long been written not by themselves but by the empires that ruled Mesopotamia, with mos…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — A fresco uncovered during restoration work at a historic church in Rome has drawn public attention after observers said the angel figure in the artwork rese…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — A fire that broke out Friday evening in wheat fields in the village of Alakane, in Nineveh province’s Rabia district, was brought under control by civil d…
IraqThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said maintenance work has begun on the Dniprovska line, the main external power supply to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power pla…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Oil Ministry said drilling began on Saturday on a new exploration well in the Amirli district of Salahaddin province, the first petroleum drilling …
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — US intelligence agencies have reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may take steps to undermine President Donald Trump's eff…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — Eleven tankers carrying a combined 20 million barrels of Iranian oil departed from Chabahar Port this week, Bloomberg reported. The agency provided figures …
IraqMOSCOW — Russian scientists have successfully grown 21 plant species and 235 varieties of vegetables and melons in enclosed, controlled greenhouse units at the Vostok sta…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — Residents of Mosul's Al-Muthanna Second district held a protest on Friday calling for the lifting of a construction ban on their land plots, saying the re…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Reconstruction and Development Coalition, aligned with former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, issued a written statement rejecting claims tha…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Police in Baghdad have concluded that a university student who reported being kidnapped on his way to an exam fabricated the story, the Rusafa Police Comm…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Prime Minister Ali Falih ez-Zeydi is reportedly preparing a comprehensive list of personnel changes affecting more than 100 senior officials as he complet…
IraqA study published in the journal Nature reports that parts of a mouse brain can be pushed into a sleep-like state while the animal remains awake. Researchers used genetic…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Minister of Communications, Mustafa Sind, announced on Tuesday that the country has cut internet transit fees on traffic passing through its networ…
DiyalaBAQUBA, Iraq — A former landfill near the Heciye River in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province east of Baghdad, has been converted into a multi-purpose sports facility …
MosulMOSUL, Iraq — River police in Nineveh province recovered the body of a young man from the Tigris River bed in eastern Mosul, a police source said. The body was located ne…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Ministry said Friday afternoon that a ceasefire agreement with the United States was signed electronically and that a meeting planned for Fr…
IraqCANBERRA, Australia — Australia has recorded its first suspected case of H5N1 bird flu, detected in a migratory wild bird in the state of Western Australia, Agriculture, …
