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SulaymaniyahSULAYMANIYAH, Iraq — A foundation focused on community development held an awareness panel in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday to address the dangers of drug use and ways to preve…
BaghdadMANAMA, Bahrain — Foreign ministers from the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) expressed support for the Iraqi government's efforts to bring weapons un…
IraqDr. Alex Taber of the Michigan Urology Institute said tobacco contains more than 70 carcinogenic and toxic substances that reach the kidneys through the bloodstream, caus…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran will consult neighboring countries on the future management of the Strait of Hormuz and the regulation o…
KarbalaANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the tragedy of Karbala endures in collective memory and that love for the Ahl al-Bayt, the family of the Prophet Muha…
Dhi QarBAGHDAD, Iraq — A Husseini procession known as the "October Martyrs" in Iraq's Dhi Qar province said it has cancelled its Ashura procession this year, citing concerns ove…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council President Judge Faiq Zidan met with Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation President Pasquale D'Ascola in Baghdad to discuss j…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — TEHRAN — Mohammad Bagher Kalibaf, speaker of Iran's parliament, rejected comments by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, denying that most of…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Former Iraqi Finance Minister Taif Sami has rejected claims by his former ministry undersecretary, Mesut Haidar, that $140 billion in public funds had dis…
BasraBASRA, Iraq — MOSCOW — Russia has declared Romania's consul general in St. Petersburg persona non grata and set a deadline for him to leave, the Russian Foreign Ministry …
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A former member of Iraq's parliamentary Agriculture and Water Committee, Tair Cuburi, has warned that climate change is intensifying across the country, w…
IraqYandex's AI chatbot GigaChat has produced a 464-page reconstruction of the lost second volume of Nikolay Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," which the Russian author burned days …
IraqIsraeli media reported that the Israeli army has halted operations to capture a facility belonging to Hezbollah near the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, on Ali Taher …
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — An Iraqi parliamentary delegation has formally submitted its objection to several provisions of the Baku Declaration adopted at the 20th session of the Pa…
IraqWhatsApp has introduced a new security feature that flags messages from unknown or international numbers before they are opened. The tool, part of expanded protection wor…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — A U.S.-based Long War Journal report says the Kurdistan Regional Government has faced hundreds of drone attacks in recent months and has asked the federal…
BaghdadWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington firmly opposes any fees or taxes imposed on ships transiting the Strait of Horm…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Morocco finished second in Group C of the 2026 World Cup with seven points after drawing Brazil 1-1 and beating Scotland 1-0 and Haiti 4-2, becoming the f…
VasitBAGHDAD, Iraq — One person was killed and two others were injured in an armed clash on Wednesday in Wasit province, southern Iraq. Security sources said the confrontation…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein sent positive signals to Washington during recent cont…
