Social media platforms restrict Iraqi activism accounts
Social media platforms, including Facebook, X and TikTok, have reportedly restricted or banned Iraqi accounts critical of the government following...
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Iraq elections: prominent Sunni candidate killed in bomb attack
Safa al-Mashhadani, a rising Iraqi parliamentary candidate representing the Siyada Alliance, was killed in a bomb attack, north of Baghdad,...
Iraq: women “second class citizens” under status law amendment
Iraq's revision of its personal status law has limited women's rights, making them "second class citizens", according to Human Rights...
US museum returns 4,500-year-old Iraqi artefact
A Mesopotamian statue of an ibex has been repatriated to Iraq from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National...
Türkiye’s Erdogan signs nuclear deal with Trump at White House
September 25th marked a great day for Turkish-American relations, as Türkiye's president, Recep Erdogan, and his US counterpart, Donald Trump,...
Hassan Al Mustafa: Arms extend beyond security and politics
Restricting armament to the state constitutes the central challenge of the Arab world. It is not merely a security and...
US troop withdrawal in Iraq casts doubt over security
The withdrawal of US soldiers from Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province and the Victoria base in Baghdad...
The Gulf’s China pivot isn’t a matter of “if,” but “when”
China’s grandiose military parade might have been about showing off its new weapons, but it was also about showing off...
Israeli-Russian researcher freed in Iraq following abduction
An Israeli-Russian researcher has been freed after allegedly facing ongoing torture from her Iraqi militia kidnappers, according to US President...
Iraq: Tribal clashes in Baghdad kill six, including police
At least six people have been killed, including four policemen, in clashes between two local tribes in the Iraqi capital,...
Enforced disappearances rampant across MENA, rights groups say
With the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances held on August 30th, rights groups have warned that these...
Iraqi Kurdish force alleges murder plot targeted its leader
A security agency linked to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region claimed on August 27th...
US forces withdraw troops from bases in Iraq
The US has started pulling out troops from two major bases in Iraq, signalling the intention of the administration of...
Iraq turns to Turkey for power stations amid electricity crisis
Iraq has turned to Turkey to fill its chronic electricity shortages by hiring floating power stations from a Turkish energy...
Over 20,000 from northeast Syria camps repatriated to Iraq
A total of 25,000 Iraqis from northeast Syria's al-Hol and al-Roj camps have been repatriated, according to the US Central...
