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IraqMOSCOW — A knife attack at a shopping mall in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar killed one woman and wounded five other people, Russia's Investigative Committee said…
NajafBAGHDAD, Iraq — A criminal court in Najaf has sentenced a man to death by hanging for killing one person and wounding three others in an armed dispute over cows eating fa…
BasraBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister for Extraction Affairs, Nasser Aziz, said on Sunday that returning southern oil fields to pre-Gulf crisis production levels and…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's High Security Committee has issued recommendations for securing the upcoming Ashura and Arbaeen pilgrimages, according to the Joint Operations Comm…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said no transit fees will be applied in the Strait of Hormuz beyond the 60-day period set under a recen…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — Mourning processions were held across central Karbala and around shrines this week to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein during the Islamic month o…
IraqBAGHDAD, Iraq — The UN Security Council on Saturday demanded that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) immediately halt their assault on El-Obeid, the capital of North Kord…
IraqCHICAGO — Research presented at the ENDO 2026 annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in Chicago suggests that GLP-1 receptor agonists, a class of drugs widely used for w…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — The Karbala Sports Club interim administration canceled its election congress on Saturday after no administrative board could be formed, the interim board…
ErbilERBIL, Iraq — Kurdistan Region Interior Minister Reber Ahmed said Prime Minister Masrour Barzani is "very firm" on the issue of oil companies' operations, and that the Er…
IraqZURICH — FIFA has outlined the tiebreaker criteria that will determine which teams advance from the group stage of the 2026 World Cup. Under the format, the top two teams…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — Authorities in Karbala have declared Thursday a public holiday across official institutions to mark the 9th day of Muharram, the first month of the Islami…
BaghdadPARIS, France — France's meteorological agency has issued its highest-level red heat alert for 35 departments across the central and western parts of the country, effecti…
BaghdadNAJAF, Iraq — Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of Iraq’s Shiite National Movement, said on Saturday that attempts to portray Imam Hussein as a rebel against the ruling Yazid ibn M…
IraqWASHINGTON, United States — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump moved to end the conflict with Iran as quickly as possible because of concerns about the war's impact on t…
IraqIsraeli media have published internal documents purportedly belonging to Hamas that describe a "strategic deception plan" said to have been prepared before the group's Oc…
IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Karin Kamangr, a national artistic gymnast from Iran's Kurdistan province, has become the first female gymnast from the region to qualify for the Asian Art…
BaghdadBAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's Paralympic Committee said national para-fencer Abdulrahman Ziyad Nizar won a silver medal at the international "Satellite" Classification Tournamen…
IraqKYIV, Ukraine — An air raid alert was issued across Ukraine on Saturday evening, with the country's official nationwide alert system warning of a missile threat to the ca…
KarbalaKARBALA, Iraq — A 1,500-year-old church in the western desert of Karbala's Ayn al-Tamr district is awaiting restoration, Iraqi officials said, describing the site as one …
