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Iraqi security forces raided a headquarters belonging to a powerful Iran-backed militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group, government officials and paramilitary sources said. The…

The Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment announced today, Tuesday, that it reported 84 deaths and 1,826 new cases of coronavirus during the past 24 hours. The total number of deaths in Iraq was 1251, and the infections were 34,502,…

After the international coalition forces launched several air strikes on the dens of ISIS in the Nineveh Governorate in northwestern Iraq, analysts confirmed that the Al-Kazemi government’s approach is different from its predecessors in an…

Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi died Sunday from complications linked to COVID-19, the health ministry said, just hours before he was to be flown for treatment in Jordan. Radhi, 56, scored what remains Iraq's only World Cup finals goal…

The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that Turkish and Iranian military interventions in Iraq violated the sovereignty of a sisterly Arab country. “UAE denounced the Turkish and Iranian military interventions in brotherly Iraq,…

New Zealand will close its embassy in Baghdad by the end of this month, after withdrawing most of its troops from Iraq. The decision comes in the wake of recurrent rocket strikes near the Iraqi capital New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs…

Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish militant targets in various regions of northern Iraq on Sunday night in response to an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases, the Defence Ministry said. “The Claw-Eagle Operation has started.…

Contrary to all artistic models, the artist Osama Iyad decided to break the well-known technical rules and think differently from the rest of the painters, and to get out of the embodiment of the natural scenes and the people in his…

Today, Friday, the Iraqi Ministry of Health and Environment recorded 1095 new infections with the new Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 17770. The ministry also announced the…

Iraq and the United States have affirmed their commitment to the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq without giving a timeline, state news agency INA said on Friday, citing Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Al-Kadhimi said the…