اخبار Iraq

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Iraq heads to the polls on November 11 with Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani seeking a second term un...

Shafaq News – LondonThe United Kingdom on Friday removed Syrian transitionalPresident Ahmad al-Sharaa and Interior Minister Anas Khattab fro...

Shafaq News– New YorkThe UnitedNations Security Council on Thursday approved a US-backed resolution removingSyrian transitional President Ah...

Shafaq News – Washington On Thursday, US President DonaldTrump extended for another year the national emergency with respect to Iran,which u...

Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani has directed his ministry to halt imports of middle distillates such as gasoline, diesel and ker...

Shafaq News – New York United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said onThursday that the world has failed to meet its commitment to...

Shafaq News– WashingtonOn Thursday,former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement from Congressafter 38 years, ending one of...

Shafaq News – DarfurOn Thursday, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed tothe humanitarian truce proposed by the Quad countries—the Unite...

Shafaq News – New YorkSeven firefighters were injured when an explosionerupted during a car fire response in the Bronx, according to the Fir...

Iraq's parliamentary election on November 11 arrives as Tehran's regional hand weakens and the outcome could determine whether it preserves...

Iraq’s state oil marketing company SOMO has canceled three crude loadings from Russia’s Lukoil this month after the U.S. sanctioned the seco...

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, r...

Shafaq News – WashingtonZohran K. Mamdani won New York’s mayoral race onWednesday, defeating Andrew Cuomo by about nine percentage points, a...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, an architect of the global war on terrorism and second Iraq war who served for decades in Congress and th...

Spencer AckermanAs much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president...

Dick Cheney left office as US vice president reviled by many as the man behind the Iraq war, and the lies that led to it, and as one of the...

The West’s push to rebuild its influence in the Middle East’s geographical and geopolitical heartland of Mesopotamia entered a new phase in...

Shafaq News – WashingtonFormer USPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Senate Republicans to abolish thefilibuster, warning that failure t...

Iraq’s defense minister said the US Secretary of Defense called him about ten days ago to warn against Iraqi factions interfering in militar...

"War on Terror" mastermind died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease

Former Vice President Dick Cheney dies, architect of the nation's longest war as he plotted the global response to the 9/11 terror attacks

Dick Cheney, who served as vice president of America under George W. Bush and is considered one of the architects of the Iraq War, has died....

Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said.

The former US vice president played a crucial role in planning and overseeing the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein...

For decades, security concerns shaped relations between Iraq and the United States almost exclusively.

Shafaq News – WashingtonUS President Trump on Monday asserted that the ceasefire hebrokered in Gaza is “not fragile,” reaffirming that Hamas...

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported hearing an explosion in the city of Al-Bukamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi border,...

Shafaq News - Mazar-i-Sharif At least seven people were killed and 150 injured when a 6.3-magnitudeearthquake struck the northern Afghan cit...

Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" or temple for...

Shafaq News – Dar el-SalamAt least 10 people were killed anddozens injured in protests across Tanzania after President Samia SuluhuHassan’s...