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BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Dozens of civil servants staged a protest outside the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Baghdad, demanding the reversal of a governm…
AnbarBAGHDAD, Iraq — Anbar Governor Omar Mahshan Dabbus said water is being released into Lake Habbaniyah at a rate of 50 cubic meters per second to raise the lake's water lev…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Seven people were arrested after an attack on private security guards at al-Fuzaili Hospital in Baghdad, security sources said. The incident began with a …
BaghdadDAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian authorities have warned residents living near the Euphrates River to avoid swimming in the water, citing rising levels and stronger currents in a…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council president, Judge Faiq Zidan, traveled to Damascus for an official visit aimed at resolving the legal status of Syrian deta…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — The head of Iran's Armed Forces Missing Persons Commission has asked Qatar to permit a delegation of Iranian Air Force experts to enter the country and inv…
MosulAL ANBAR, Iraq — Karma sports club has issued a formal response to allegations that it fielded six foreign players during a match against Mosul, saying one of the dispute…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Gold prices were unchanged in Baghdad's local markets on Wednesday while recording a slight increase in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, accord…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Baghdad-based economic monitor Ikko Iraq said the government's silence over a reported decision involving the Kurdistan Regional Administration has fu…
IraqIraq's Meteorological Authority said temperatures will climb across the country on Monday, with partly cloudy and hot conditions and some cloud cover in northern areas. T…
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has removed the rector of the University of Basra from his position, according to a ministry d…
IraqProlonged psychological pressure can produce real physical pain even when no underlying organic disease is present, with extended anxiety and stress commonly showing up a…
IraqWeight gain during pregnancy varies according to a woman's pre-pregnancy weight, height and body mass index, and health specialists say there is no single ideal range tha…
DuhokDUHOK, Iraq — The Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Health confirmed a case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in a 23-year-old man in Duhok province, ministry …
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Media and Communications Commission has begun work to require social media companies to open official offices inside the country, a parliamentary c…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Medical workers gathered near the Health Ministry in central Baghdad on Wednesday, blocking a road and prompting security forces to deploy in the area, ac…
IraqBEIRUT, Lebanon — The Israeli military said Saturday it killed a senior Hezbollah commander, identified by the code name "Abu Hasan Ala," in an airstrike on the Deir al-Z…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The United States imported no crude oil from Iraq last week, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, marking the seventh consec…
IraqU.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) revised a map published in connection with a regional tour by Lieutenant General Brad Cooper, after the original graphic depicted the West …
IraqDOHA, Qatar — Qatar has confirmed that one of its F-15 fighter jets shot down two Iranian Su-24 warplanes at the start of the US-Israeli war, according to a CNN report ci…
