Trump orders US withdrawal from UNESCO over bias on Israel

2025-07-22T13:24:50+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Washington President Donald Trump has ordered the United States to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),... Read more »

Gaza death toll climbs as pressure builds to end Israeli war

2025-07-22T15:55:05+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Gaza (Updated at 8:28 p.m.) At least 77 Palestinians were killed and 376 injured in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health... Read more »

Turkiye-Iraq Pipeline: End of an era, dawn of a new energy game

Shafaq News Turkiye’s decision to formally terminate its decades-old oil pipeline agreement with Iraq marks a pivotal shift in regional energy dynamics. Despite multiple rounds of negotiations between Turkish and Iraqi officials... Read more »

Iraq faces oil export reckoning as Turkiye ends historic pipeline deal

2025-07-21T20:24:23+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Turkiye’s decision to terminate a decades-old oil pipeline agreement with Iraq has exposed deep structural vulnerabilities in Baghdad’s export strategy,... Read more »

Israeli forces accused of abducting Gaza’s top field hospital chief

2025-07-21T21:09:54+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Gaza Israel’s reported abduction of a senior Palestinian physician in southern Gaza has drawn sharp condemnation from Gaza’s Health Ministry, local... Read more »

Between devotion and drought: Karbala braces for Arbaeen under strain

2025-07-21T19:14:44+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Karbala, one of Iraq’s most sacred cities, is struggling with intensifying shortages in water and electricity as it prepares to host millions... Read more »

Gaza Hunger: 73 killed as US-backed Foundation faces scrutiny

2025-07-20T17:22:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Gaza 73 Palestinians died on Sunday while waiting for aid trucks in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry, as calls intensified... Read more »

Erased stones: War’s toll on Gaza’s cultural heritage

Shafaq News Beneath Gaza’s modern streets and rubble lie fragments of civilizations that shaped the region for millennia. Yet the ongoing Israeli war since October 7, 2023, has shattered much of this... Read more »

Deadly Iraq’s Kut fire: Wasit Governor faces dismissal

2025-07-20T17:49:22+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Wasit A devastating fire at a hypermarket in Iraq’s Kut province claimed the lives of at least 70 people, including men,... Read more »

Iraq’s Provincial Councils: Dysfunctional return deepens public disillusionment

Shafaq News Eighteen months after Iraq reinstated provincial councils through elections held in December 2023, what was intended as a milestone for local democratic renewal has instead descended into institutional paralysis. Across... Read more »