Public anger is mounting in Iraq after clashes between security forces and gunmen from an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad left two dead. The violence was sparked when fighters stormed a government building to forcibly reinstate a dismissed director general …
2025-07-28T17:45:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced on Monday the arrest of the former director of the Agriculture Department in Baghdad’s Karkh district, citing his direct role in the deadly …
2025-07-28T19:38:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad/Basra/Erbil/Maysan Iraq intensified its anti-narcotics efforts on Monday with a series of actions across the country, including a death sentence for a foreign …
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday criticised the federal government’s move to ban Pakistani piligims from travelling to Iran and Iraq by road. Pilgrims visit Iraq to attend the chehlum commemoration — also known as Arbaeen (40 in Arabic) — to mark …
2025-07-28T09:25:35+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two lawsuits concerning the disbursement of salaries in the Kurdistan Region, citing a lack of jurisdiction in both cases. The …
Illustrative image. An unidentified drone crashed on July 28 near Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan , resulting in no casualties, Kurdish counterterrorism forces reported. “On Monday morning at 05:50, an explosive- …
2025-07-28T17:09:17+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Directorate of Patents and Industrial Designs has granted four new patents for scientific innovations in cancer treatment, sustainable architecture, soil monitoring, …
BAGHDAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- A severe heatwave is sweeping across Iraq, with temperatures surpassing 50 degrees Celsius on Monday in 13 provinces, the Iraqi Meteorological Organization and Seismology said in a statement. The highest temperature of 51 …
Announced in 2021, Basra solar farm is the second 1GW solar plant in the country built by TotalEnergies, with a US$10 billion investment in new gas networks and seawater treatment. Spanning over 9 kms, the solar farm will install two million solar panels …
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