Iraq

An Iraqi Airways plane travelling from Baghdad to Dubai was delayed on Friday, after a bear escaped from its crate in the cargo hold on Friday at Dubai International...

In a thought-provoking op-ed published on Friday by Saudi Arabian daily newspaper Okaz, entitled "Friday is a working day," writer Mona Al-Otaibi questions whether the Kingdom's traditional Friday-Saturday weekend...

Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials including an ex-finance minister and an ex-intelligence chief over the alleged theft of...

Iraq's telecoms ministry said it has blocked the Telegram messaging app over national security concerns and in order to preserve the integrity of users' personal data, which it said...

Denmark is studying several measures and legislation to prevent the recurrence of Quran burning incidents, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Friday, Anadolu reports. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen affirmed...

The Daesh terrorist group announced, on Thursday, the death of its little-known leader, Abu Hussein Al-Qurashi, who, it said, was killed in clashes in north-western Syria, and named a...

Parliamentary elections in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq are set for February next year, the presidential office announced on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. The parliamentary elections...

A young chef in Iraq's Kirkuk region offers Turkish cuisine to locals at a counter she has set up at a market, Anadolu Agency reports. Sara Sabah told Anadolu...

Iraq's top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has sent a letter to Pope Francis calling for peaceful co-existence and respect among followers of all faiths, and calling for concerted efforts...

Water jets are being used to help people cool down as summer temperatures hit over 50 degrees Celsius in Iraq

Iraqi daily wagers, who have no social security, try to support their families by carrying heavy loads on their backs for about 10 hours a day in the scorching...

Britain, on Tuesday, formally acknowledged that acts of genocide were committed against minority Yazidis by Daesh militants in Iraq in 2014, ahead of the nine-year anniversary of the crimes,...

The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity said Sunday that there has been a power outage for more than 24 hours in Baghdad and southern cities, reports Anadolu Agency. It said...

The Swedish migration agency said late on Friday it is re-examining the residency permit of an Iraqi refugee who is behind several Qur'an desecrations in Stockholm in recent weeks,...

Fourteen Iraqi private banks hit with curbs by the United States over allegedly helping siphon US dollars to Iran said on Wednesday they were ready to challenge the measures...

Shia Muslims in Iraq mark the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad (pubuh)'s grandson Imam Al-Hussein. In the Islamic year 61 (680 AD), Hussein and 72 of his men were killed at the Battle of Karbala, which cemented the 'great schism' in Islam and the formation of its two main sects

Muslims, worldwide, have condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran in Denmark and Sweden, asserting that these attacks cannot be justified by freedom of expression, Anadolu Agency reports....

Construction and transportation day workers in northern Erbil province in Iraq are trying to earn a living in temperatures of more than 45C (113F), Anadolu Agency reports. Residents do...

A helicopter of the US-led coalition military forces crashed on Thursday in northern Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF–OIR) said in a statement, Anadolu...

An Iraqi doctor who lives in Wales has won the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee 2023. Asmaa was crowned the winner yesterday after beating 12 contestants. The 46-year-old said...

Fourteen Iraqi private banks sanctioned by the United States over allegedly helping siphon US dollars to Iran said on Wednesday they were ready to challenge the measures and face...

Dozens of people have been injured in a fire that broke out in a six-storey hotel in the city of Najaf in central Iraq, the Civil Defence Directorate announced...

The Palestine Action protest outside the Elbit-owned UAV Tactical Systems factory in Leicestershire's Meridian Business Park has now entered its 87th day. A small but determined group of protesters...

Sweden's left-wing opposition party demanded an emergency parliamentary meeting Tuesday about the ongoing Quran burnings, Anadolu Agency reports. "We are calling for the foreign policy committee to be called...

Egypt has warned the population not to use lifts for 20 minutes, each hour, whilst it implements power cuts so that it can conserve energy as a gruelling heat...

A small group of anti-Islam activists set fire to Qurans in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies in Copenhagen on Tuesday, after similar protests in Denmark and Sweden...

Hate speech and racism against Muslims in Europe have increased significantly, threatening co-existence in societies, the head of Hamad bin Khalifa Civilisation Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark said, Anadolu Agency...

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that the Danish diplomatic mission in Baghdad left the country on Saturday, following the burning of a copy of the Holy...

A judge in the UK has ruled that the home secretary acted unlawfully in not providing basic support to asylum seekers including young children and pregnant women. Mr Justice...

An unexpected visit from former British diplomat and family acquaintance Duncan Claybourne to Iraqi-British psychiatrist Mona Haddad in 2003 sets the scene for Elizabeth Loudon's novel, A Stranger in...

It is often stated that within the world of Shia Muslim seminaries, the cities of Najaf in Iraq and Qom in Iran represent two contrasting camps in Shia scholarly...

Attacks against the Holy Quran persist in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, as members of the marginalised group, Danish Patriots, known for their anti-Islamic and ultra-nationalist stance, burned two copies of...