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The British government's independent reviewer of counter-terrorism legislation has urged the United Kingdom to repatriate British nationals and even former nationals who are detained in Syria, insisting that the...
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Iraqi independent candidates and new parties are less likely to win the local elections scheduled for the end of year, according to political experts, Anadolu Agency reports. The Iraqi...
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The staff of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad returned on Friday to Stockholm for security reasons after the embassy was stormed by protesters angry about permission being granted to...
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July 22, 2023
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Sanja Skov Vedel
Sweden has allowed people to burn the Quran claiming it is their 'right' to do so, but does this outweigh the possible incitement such actions can cause?
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Iraq renewed its agreement to provide Lebanon with up to 2 million tons of crude oil for a year, Lebanese Energy Ministry said in a statement on Friday, Reuters...
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Britain has condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran, Islam's holy book, in the Swedish capital city of Stockholm, Anadolu Agency reports. In a written statement issued by...
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Petting a water buffalo before tying a fodder bag around its neck, Mustafa Ahmed tends his father's herd in Iraq's southern province of Najaf, where his family have raised...
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Iraqi authorities, on Thursday, declared Sweden's ambassador to Baghdad 'persona non grata' following Swedish police permission for Quran burning in front of the Iraqi Embassy, according to the Iraqi...
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Sweden, on Thursday, saw yet another act of deliberate desecration of the Muslim holy book, the Quran. Despite protests of the official permission for previous acts of desecration, this provocation...
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Supporters of Iraqi cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr break into and set fire to the Swedish embassy in Baghdad in reaction to the Quran burning in Sweden
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A Gaza-based Palestinian prisoners' association has called on Iraq to facilitate an exchange deal involving 5,000 Palestinians for the release of Russian-Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov. Her abduction in Iraq,...
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US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on Tuesday signed a new national security waiver letting Iraq pay Iran for electricity that, for the first time, allows such payments to...
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Officials and citizens in Iraq have expressed outrage following the demolition of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in the southern city of Basra on Friday. Built in 1727...
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The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada Al-Sadr, warned against enacting a law criminalising "insulting scholars" or criticising them in an unconstructive manner, after anger was sparked by publications by the Islamic Dawa Party led...
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani began an official visit to Syria on Sunday, the first by an Iraqi premier since the outbreak of the Syrian war in 2011,...
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A barter of Iranian natural gas for Iraqi oil as described by the Iraqi Prime Minister this week would likely violate US sanctions on Tehran unless the US issued a waiver...
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Pollution in Iraq's River Tigris threatens people's health and safety, Anadolu Agency reports. Chemicals and waste materials from various government institutions and power plants are polluting the River Tigris,...
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Former Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, was "fully aware" of Israeli-Russian Elizabeth Tsurkov's frequent visits to Iraq and had warned both Washington and Moscow that her Israeli citizenship and...
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Iraq will start paying for its Iranian gas imports with oil, to circumvent the complicated mechanism agreed with Washington in order not to contravene US sanctions, the Prime Minister...
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Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers, such as Iraqi fish farmer, Qasem Karam, facing the loss of...
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The United States has sent military and logistic reinforcements to its bases in Syria's north-eastern Al-Hasakah province. Local sources said two convoys of military vehicles entered Al-Hasakah on Tuesday,...
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The heatwave the Middle Eastern country is experiencing in 2023 is the worst in 40 years and water levels have dropped dramatically.
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Shlaim recalls a time when indigenous Jews resided in Muslim-majority lands harmoniously alongside their Muslim and Christian neighbours and how Israel worked to destabilise their ties
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Iraq is reportedly planning to buy JF-17 fighter aircraft from Pakistan, becoming the fifth country to do so, according to a report on Sunday by Pakistan's The News International,...
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Russia, on Tuesday, vetoed at the UN Security Council, a nine-month renewal of an aid operation delivering assistance to some 4 million people in rebel-held north-west Syria from Turkiye...
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When Jacob Nemec's family heard he was planning to go on holiday in Iraq, they pleaded with the 28-year-old American to reconsider. "I got a text from my grandma,...
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July 8, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In March, the South African Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the "imperialist bias" of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a...
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The Iraqi government has opened an investigation into the kidnapping of Israeli citizen, Elizabeth Tsurkov, in Baghdad in March, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Tsurkov went missing...
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Following the report that Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Iraq by an Iran-backed Shia militia, an Israeli official has been compelled to deny any links between her...
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An Israeli-Russian academic, who went missing in Iraq a few months ago, is alive and being held there by Shia group, Kataib Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office...
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Iraqi volunteers pick up rakes and spades as they embark on a campaign to clean up the ancient city of Hatra. Located in northern Iraq, Hatra is an archaeological gem and a UNESCO World Heritage Site believed to be the capital of the first pre-Islamic Arab kingdom
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Decreasing water levels in local rivers has left fish unable to survive with tonnes dying in the country's south