Iraq grants patents for cancer therapy and smart tech innovations

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...

IRGC chief visits Baghdad over fears of Iraqi instability - analysis

Atlantic Council announces New Head of Iraq Initiative

From the Atlantic Council: The Atlantic Council announced that Victoria J. Taylor, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, will be the new director of the Iraq Initiative within its Middle East Programs. Taylor brings a...

Cabinet recalls with bitterness Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Cabinet has recalled with resentment the Iraqi occupation of the country on 2nd August 1990, and expressed pride of the national heroes who sacrificed their lives to defend their homeland. The Cabinet, in its weekly meeting held...

Turkey asks Iraq to ensure full use of oil pipeline in talks

Iraqi workers pump oil at the Shirawa oilfield, where oil was first pumped in Iraq in 1927, outside the northern city of Kirkuk 19 January 2004. [Getty] Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a proposed new energy agreement between...

Iraq Faces Intense Heatwave

(MENAFN) A relentless heatwave is gripping Iraq, with the Iraqi Meteorological Organization and Seismology reporting that temperatures surged beyond 50 degrees Celsius in 13 governorates on Monday. According to a statement from the organization,...

Khorramshahr-Basra passenger service begins ahead of Arbaeen

Saeed Rasouli, Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development and PMO Managing Director, announced that the first journey to Iraq’s port of Basra commenced on Friday, 1 August 2025. Depending on demand, up to four round-trips per day have been...

California man arrested for allegedly sending money to ISIS

Follow The FBI arrested on Friday a man in Long Beach, California, for allegedly sending money to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the Department of Justice. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva,...

Kuwait commemorates 35 years since the Iraqi invasion

The toll of the war was devastating. Iraqi casualties are estimated between 70,000 and 200,000, with some 200,000 civilians affected. Coalition deaths totaled 505, including 472 Americans. Iraq lost thousands of tanks and aircraft, and its...

California man sent money to ISIS fighters, feds allege. 'Someday soon, I'll be joining'

A Southern California man was arrested Friday on suspicion of sending money to and declaring support for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, federal prosecutors said. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva, a 28-year-old Long Beach resident, allegedly...

At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine

Eddy van Wessel, a Dutch freelance photographer who has covered wars in Chechnya, Iraq, and Syria, arrived in Kyiv in late February, 2022, two days into the Russian invasion. His working method is intuitive, even improvisational. In Ukraine, he...

Iraq’s Federal Court throws out lawsuits on Kurdistan salaries

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...

Iraq’s Integrity Commission warns parties over election fund misuse

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...

Iraq grapples 51C temperatures, historic drought, power shortages

Iraqis grappled on Monday with searing heat in the capital Baghdad and parts of the country’s south, where the weather service said temperatures reached 51C in the shade, APA reports citing Al Arabiya. Iraq’s 46 million people face rising...

Iraq to produce 12GW of Solar Power by 2030

By John Lee. The Iraqi Oil Ministry's Undersecretary for Distribution Affairs, Ali Maarij, has said that Iraq aims to incorporate 12 Gigawatts (GW) of solar power into its energy mix by 2030, alongside intensified efforts to capture natural gas...

Iraq Opens Central Gas Processing Facility at Block 9

By John Lee. The Ministry of Oil has inaugurated the Central Gas Processing Facility at the Al-Faihaa [Fayhaa, Block 9] oil field in Basra, with a capacity of 130 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). The launch was conducted via video...

TrendingSiege on Sweida, and anger after clashes in Iraq

Food and medicine levels are critically low in Sweida, Syria. Deadly clashes in Iraq have fuelled anger across the country. Wildfires rage in Turkey, Greece and Albania. On today's episode of Trending Middle East: Sweida running out of supplies...

Iraq's CF condemns Baghdad ministry assault

2025-07-27T21:14:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad On Sunday, Iraq’s Coordination Framework, a bloc of Shiite ruling parties, condemned the recent armed assault on a Ministry of Agriculture office in southern Baghdad,...

Legacy of Saddam-Era: How old laws cripple Iraq's legislative future

Shafaq News More than two decades after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, the legacy of Iraq’s dissolved Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) continues to obstruct the country’s legislative development. Despite successive parliamentary sessions...

29 attacks on Israel, U.S. bases foiled by Iraq to contain regional conflict, says PM

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani revealed in an interview with the Associated Press that his government blocked 29 attempts by pro-Iranian militias to launch missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. bases in Iraq during last month’s...