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IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — BAGHDAD — A drone strike targeted an electricity generation station in Zawiya, west of the Libyan capital Tripoli, knocking several production units offli…
IraqHONOLULU, Hawaii — Tropical Storm Lala strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday as it moved toward Hawaii's Big Island, bringing intense rainfall and damaging winds to the…
IraqKABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has called on the United States to reopen its embassy in Kabul, telling the New York Times that the war era…
KirkukKIRKUK, Iraq — Local and security officials in Kirkuk convened with tribal leaders this week to review coordination between tribes and state institutions in countering ex…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a condolence message to Indonesia following a series of earthquakes that struck parts of the country, causing ca…
BabilBAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi government commission established by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaydi will travel to Jurf al-Sakhr on Tuesday for its first field visit to reopen the …
DivaniyeBAGHDAD, Iraq — An army officer and a police officer were wounded in a shootout during a drug raid in Diwaniyah, Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry's …
DivaniyeBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Interior Ministry said an army officer and a police officer were wounded during an armed clash with a wanted suspect in Diwaniya province, and that…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — The Iraq Stars League opened its 2026-2027 season on Friday with two matches ending in draws. At Al Zawraa Stadium in Baghdad, hosts Al Zawraa were held t…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Former Iraq Football Federation president Hussein Said has criticized the federation's licensing commission, saying the playing surfaces at two grounds us…
MosulBAGHDAD, Iraq — The head of the Turkmen Bloc in Iraq's parliament, Arshad al-Calici, has reopened the file of children abducted by ISIS, asking the government for informa…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — The United States and Iran are caught in a prolonged confrontation in which neither side has been able to secure a decisive victory or chart a…
IraqDocuments filed with the U.S. Justice Department show that Havas, a global advertising firm, paid $100,000 to the company Piro to build a website called the "Hanover Inst…
DivaniyeDIWANIYAH, Iraq — Construction is continuing on a sewerage infrastructure project in the Gammas district of Iraq's Diwaniyah province, the provincial Environment Departme…
IraqDOHA, Qatar — Qatar's Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Mohammed al-Ansari has rejected Iranian allegations that three Iranian pilots have been held in the country for rou…
IraqDOHA, Qatar — Qatar's Foreign Ministry on Saturday firmly denied allegations that it is holding two Iranian pilots, calling the claims "misleading" while diplomatic effor…
IraqMARIB, Yemen — Several explosions rocked the eastern Yemeni city of Marib on Saturday evening after Houthi forces fired four ballistic missiles and four drones at the cit…
IraqSana'a, Yemen — Yemen's army said on Saturday evening that Houthi forces launched three ballistic missiles at residential areas in the city of Marib, east of the capital …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's unemployment count is estimated at between 1.5 million and 1.73 million people, with official figures putting the jobless rate at around 13 percent…
IraqProf. Nina Vishnevskaya of the Department of Life Safety at Perm Polytechnic University said honey consumption can trigger anaphylactic shock, which may be fatal without …
