2026-04-17T08:02:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Beirut Lebanese officials and political figures on Friday expressed cautious optimism over the 10-day ceasefire with Israel, while warning of its fragility... Read more »

Shafaq News A political session held in a Baghdad hotel nearly two years ago was supposed to end a governance deadlock in one of Iraq’s most divided provinces. Today, the parties who... Read more »

By Guest Blogger. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. “Deleting the Zeros” — What Iraq Actually Said, and What... Read more »

Shafaq News On March 3, 2026, Iraq’s southern oilfields began going dark. The trigger was the closure of the Strait of Hormuz —the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of global... Read more »

2026-04-14T15:50:27+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Washington Lebanon and Israel met Tuesday at the US State Department in Washington in their first direct ambassador-level contact since 1993, with... Read more »

2026-04-14T19:47:55+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The latest round of negotiations between Iran and the United States ended without an agreement early Sunday after more than 20 hours... Read more »

Shafaq News Nizar Amedi’s election as Iraq’s sixth president on April 11 settled one constitutional question and opened a harder one. The 227 out of 329 votes that carried him to the... Read more »

From the Office of the Iraqi President: President Rashid Announces Withdrawal from Second-Term Bid, Citing Need to Preserve National Unity Baghdad, April 11, 2026 — President Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid addressed the... Read more »

2026-04-10T12:20:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Kirkuk Flocks of storks have reappeared in the skies of Kirkuk province after an absence of more than five decades, drawing widespread... Read more »