Shafaq News Iraq faces mounting security and judicial pressure as it receives around 6,000 ISIS detainees transferred from Syria, a move officials describe as one of the largest post-territorial defeat security operations... Read more »

Shafaq News The third round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran began Thursday in Geneva under hardened positions that suggest the negotiations are not only about centrifuges or enrichment... Read more »

(The late Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Photo: Ali Al-Saad/Reuters) As a federal parliamentary republic, one of the main pillars of Iraq’s political system is the executive authority, which is comprised of two... Read more »

Shafaq News The storm ignited by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s assertion that Israel holds a “religious right” to land stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates has evolved into more... Read more »

2026-02-24T10:53:49+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News By Ali Hussein Feyli An “Iraq without the Kurds” would not represent merely a geographic or political shift; beyond the deep historical... Read more »

By John Lee. The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has announced updated lists of banks and companies prohibited from dealing in US dollars as part of its ongoing banking sector reform initiative.... Read more »

Shafaq News Each time Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of a war with the United States, concern reverberates across the region, particularly in Iraq, given the... Read more »

2026-02-23T06:07:55+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Kuwait The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain backed Kuwait in its ongoing maritime dispute with Iraq after Baghdad submitted... Read more »

2026-02-22T18:57:12+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Gaza After two years of forced closure and strict Israeli restrictions imposed during the war, Rafah land crossing, the main gateway between... Read more »