Iraq

2023-06-29T09:05:44.000000Z

Shafaq News / Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed strong condemnation and outrage on Thursday over the Swedish authorities' permission for an extremist to burn a copy of the Holy Quran in a manner that constitutes a grave insult to religious sanctities.

In a press statement, the

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Iraq

2023-06-29T07:13:33.000000Z

Shafaq News / Qais al-Khazali, the leader of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (League of the Righteous), accused the US Embassy on Thursday of attempting to promote "homosexuality" in Iraq.

He called on the Iraqi government to review agreements and scholarship programs with the United States, while

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Iraq

2023-06-28T21:49:16.000000Z

Shafaq News/ The spokesperson to the Iraqi Government, Basem al-Awadi, expressed a fervent condemnation of the disrespectful act perpetrated by an Iraqi-origin refugee in Sweden, who ignited a copy of the Quran, on Wednesday.

In a strongly-worded statement, Al-Awadi underscored the deep

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Iraq

2023-06-28T12:49:33.000000Z

Shafaq News / The Counter-terrorism service announced on Wednesday the arrest of the self-proclaimed "legal judge" of the terrorist organization ISIS.

The agency, in a concise statement, revealed that a special unit of the agency, in collaboration with al-Sulaimaniyah Anti-Terrorism

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Iraq

2023-06-28T16:40:52.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Nader Omidzadeh, the incumbent governor of Khorramshahr, on Wednesday said that a tally of more than 85,000 Iranians had embarked on a pilgrimage to the Iraqi city of Karbala to partake in the Day of Arafat ceremonies, a journey made over the course of the previous six days

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Iraq

2023-06-28T07:19:32.000000Z

Shafaq News / Thousands of individuals partook in the morning of Wednesday in the religious ceremony of Eid prayer at the mausoleum of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Jilani, situated in the heart of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

The lens of Shafaq News Agency's camera captured the solemn rituals

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