Iraq

2024-01-15T15:57:40+00:00

Shafaq News/ Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani arrived Monday in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum.

The Iraqi premier will be pushing his "Development and Reform" agenda, along with a large team of his senior aides and cabinet officials, at the annual gathering

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Iraq

2024-01-15T10:54:57+00:00

Shafaq News/ Following the unsuccessful session on Saturday to elect a new Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, a political initiative is underway in Baghdad to put forth a compromise candidate who would garner support from both Sunni and Shiite political parties.

Yassin Al-Ithawi, a former

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Iraq

2024-01-15T08:35:28+00:00

Shafaq News/ On Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani received an official invitation to visit the Netherlands.

According to a statement by Al-Sudani's Media Office, the Prime Minister received the Dutch Ambassador to Iraq, Hans Sandee, and they discussed bilateral

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Iraq

2024-01-14T20:21:14+00:00

Shafaq News/ At least three Iraqi troops have been killed in a brazen attack waged by a group of ISIS militants in the northern governorate of Saladin, a security source reported on Sunday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the killed soldiers were members of an army unit from the

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Iraq

2024-01-14T21:08:55+00:00

Shafaq News/ An Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group on Sunday claimed responsibility for attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria.

The group, named Islamic Resistance in Iraq, claimed in an online statement that its fighters launched a bomb-laden drones and rockets on base housing

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Iraq

2024-01-14T19:20:46+00:00

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Federal Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial authority, on Sunday rejected a challenge to a provision in the Kurdistan Regional Government's law on municipalities.

The court found that the provision, which allows municipal councils to continue to function

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