اخبار Iraq

Iraq’s Interior Ministry denied social media claims that Baghdad has opened its borders to Syrian refugees and plans to receive 350,000 Syri...

Shafaq News- WashingtonThe United States is working withall parties to ensure a “peaceful and organized” transfer of facilities holdingISIS...

The semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, centred in Erbil, has a significance way beyond its size, oil and gas output, and military cap...

Shafaq News- WashingtonUS President Donald Trump said on Monday that a new tradeagreement with India will see New Delhi halt Russian oil imp...

Shafaq News- CaracasVenezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, confirmed onMonday that the country has exported liquefied petroleum gas...

Shafaq News– WashingtonUS President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed a recentwarning from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that...

Shafaq News– PretoriaSouth Africa is set to fully severdiplomatic relations with Israel, the US-based Al-Monitor reported on Sunday.Citing I...

The Iraqi Coordination Framework (comprising a group of political forces that form the largest parliamentary bloc) renewed its support for N...

The Iraqi Parliament decided on Sunday to postpone its session.The Parliament's media office stated in a press release received by the Iraqi...

Mark Savaya, named by U.S. President Donald Trump as special envoy for Iraq in October, is no longer in that role, sources familiar with the...

Mark Savaya, named by U.S. ‌President Donald Trump as special envoy for Iraq in October, is no longer in that role, sources familiar with th...

The Coordination Framework said that selecting a PM is an internal constitutional matter.

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Shafaq News– WashingtonThe United States’strategy of forcing Iran back to nuclear negotiations through militarypressure, economic strain, an...

Shafaq News– WashingtonUS President Donald Trump indicated readiness fornegotiations with Iran, even as Washington accelerates the deploymen...

There are a lot of differences between 2003 and today.

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his childhood, he was not...

Shafaq News– WashingtonUS President Donald Trump has been provided with fullmilitary briefings on potential offensive options against Iran,...

Por Kylie Atwood, CNNMientras el Gobierno de Trump se preparaba a finales del año pasado para la operación militar estadounidense que cap...

Shafaq News– Washington US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that RussianPresident Vladimir Putin agreed not to fire on Kyiv for...

The Iraqi Presidency confirmed today, Thursday, its rejection of any form of foreign interference in Iraq’s political affairs, reiterating I...

Trump says if former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is reelected, the U.S. "will no longer help Iraq." Here's what's behind the intervention...

French lawyers for suspected ISIL members transferred from Syria say men suffering inhumane treatment in Iraqi jails.

The secretary-general of Iraq’s Harakat al-Nujaba anti-terror group has warned Iran’s adversaries about the inevitably far-reaching conseque...

ShafaqNews– BrusselsTheEuropean Union will list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as aterrorist organization, with France back...

Iraq’s leading candidate for prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on Wednesday denounced what he called Washington’s “blatant interference” afte...

Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq affirmed on Wednesday that the blatant interference by the US administration comes within the context of a series o...

Shafaq News– WashingtonUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that 30,000 to 40,000 US troops deployed across the Middle East a...

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ABBY SEWELLBAGHDAD (AP) — Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed defiance Wednesday after U.S. Pre...

Iraq’s former leader Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is nominated to be the next prime minister but President Trump said the United States would cut al...