Shafaq News Iraq is facing its most severe electricity crisis in years as summer approaches, a convergence of war, sanctions, fiscal collapse, and decades of structural failure that has simultaneously stripped Baghdad... Read more »

2026-05-06T15:22:27+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, Iraq became one of the most exposed economies on the planet.... Read more »

Shafaq News A 19-year-old Kurdish fighter survived an IRGC drone strike on al-Sulaymaniyah border camp —then died after multiple hospitals turned her away. Her case has exposed fault lines in the KRG’s... Read more »

Shafaq News In Baghdad, governments are not born from ballot boxes alone; they emerge from a long chain of understandings, guarantees, and mutual anxieties, and it was into this chain that Kurdistan... Read more »

2026-05-04T19:16:55+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israeli strikes killed 17 people and wounded 35 others across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, according to the Lebanese Ministry... Read more »

Shafaq News Thirty-three days before Reporters Without Borders published its annual verdict on press freedom worldwide, a car pulled up alongside American journalist Shelly Kittleson on Saadoun Street in central Baghdad. Two... Read more »

Shafaq News Since April 8, no confirmed attack has been recorded against US military installations in Iraq. Drone activity has continued in Erbil and Al-Sulaymaniyah provinces in the days following the ceasefire,... Read more »

2026-05-03T14:07:53+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Israeli strikes killed and wounded at least 20 people across southern Lebanon on Sunday, Lebanese media and official figures indicated, as... Read more »

Shafaq News Every day, above the oil fields of southern Iraq, gas burns off into the sky in towers of orange flame. Iraq flares 1,200 million standard cubic feet of gas per... Read more »