But what takes years to build can collapse seemingly overnight. Iraq is the latest country in which many leaders are attempting to move out of Iran’s orbit. Last year, the Axis rapidly slid from ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s planning ministry on Monday released the official results of the country’s first nationwide census since 1987, revealing a nearly equal gender distribution and ...

The General Company for Iraqi Railways (GCIR) has signed a consultancy agreement with European transportation consultancy PTV to study and design the rehabilitation of the Basra-Rabiya railway line ...

Today Feb 24, 2025 prayer times Basrah are Fajr Time 5:12 AM, Dhuhr Time 12:14 PM, Asr Time 3:23 PM, Maghrib Time 5:51 PM & Isha Time 7:11 PM. Today's namaz timings Basrah are based on the Islamic ...

Iraqi provinces including Baghdad (in the holy city of Kadhimiya), Najaf, Karbala, Maysan, Diwaniyah, Samawah, Basra, and Wasit are set to host symbolic funerals for ... He also stressed that Iraqis ...

U.S. pressures Iraq to restart pipeline to Turkey, halt Kurdish oil smuggling to Iran - sources Iran views ally Iraq as vital to keeping its economy afloat Kurdish oil export resumption faces ...

Acclaimed Egyptian author Mansoura Ez-Eldin's novel The Orchards of Basra is a captivating novel that centres around Hisham Al Khattab ... Shifting between modern Egypt and ancient Iraq, the reader is ...

Iraq is diversifying its energy strategy by reducing its reliance on Iranian gas. Baghdad is looking to secure LNG as it works to ramp up domestic gas production. Tensions between Baghdad and the ...

disclosed this in a statement titled ‘NAPTIP scuttles trafficking of recruited Nigerians to Iraq; intercepts 13 victims at NAIA, Abuja.’ The agency said the hotel’s owner “was arrested ...

With the abject failures of Iraq and Afghanistan still fresh in the ... But we know from bitter experience – in Ireland, Lebanon, Basra and elsewhere – that peacekeepers can quickly become ...

Iraq announced on Sunday the start of construction of new school buildings under the ... the construction of schools in Baghdad (Sabaa Qsoor), Babylon (Hayy Al-Hisn in Al-Mahaweel district), Basra (Al ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Demonstrators march to demand the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in Qamishli, northeastern Syria ...