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 …
2025-07-28T14:28:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Erbil On Monday, Iraq’s National Security Adviser Qassem al-Araji emphasized that the security of the Kurdistan Region is essential to the country’s overall stability, citing …
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 …
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, …
2025-07-28T14:59:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah The federal decision to elevate Qarah Tabbah to district status in Iraq’s Diyala province has drawn criticism from Kurdish lawmaker Karwan Yarwais, arguing that the …
2025-07-28T13:57:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad The Iraqi Federal Commission of Integrity warned, on Monday, political parties against exploiting public funds or official positions for electoral gain. Speaking during a high …
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