Census shock: Can Iraq’s system absorb its population explosion?

2025-12-01T05:58:56+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Iraq’s first national census in almost forty years has delivered a stark demographic verdict: a country adding people faster than it expands... Read more »

Popes’ visits to crisis countries: Symbolism, politics, religion, and the struggle for survival

Shafaq News For more than six decades, popes have walked into the Middle East’s most volatile landscapes, choosing war-torn cities, occupied territories, and fragile states as the front lines of their diplomatic... Read more »

Zero-sum game: Can the Iran-Israel conflict push Iraq toward frontline?

Shafaq News The Middle East is once again on edge, and Iraq finds itself uncomfortably positioned between Iran and Israel as the two regional powers trade unusually sharp warnings. Israeli Defense Minister... Read more »

Surge in tribal clashes forces thousands to flee Maysan

2025-11-29T23:09:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Tribal conflicts and an expanding drug trade have pushed Maysan Province into one of its most severe security crises in years, forcing... Read more »

Breaking the 9-to-5: Freelancing becomes Iraq’s Gen Z new safety net

2025-11-29T18:18:47+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Rising prices and stagnant wages are pushing a growing number of young Iraqis away from traditional jobs and into freelance work —... Read more »

Baghdad revisits premiership lineup amid shifts inside ruling bloc

2025-11-29T13:40:20+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad One week after Iraq’s Federal Supreme Court dissolved parliament and reduced the government to caretaker status, the battle over who... Read more »

Arabic Handwriting: A cultural legacy unraveling in the digital age

Shafaq News Once a defining marker of identity and scholarship across the Arab world, Arabic handwriting is now in steady decline. Teachers from Baghdad to Amman and Cairo say they increasingly struggle... Read more »

World denounces Israeli attack in Syria’s Beit Jinn

2025-11-28T15:44:18+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Damascus On Friday, multiple governments and international bodies condemned the Israeli raid on the Syrian town of Beit Jinn (Beet Gian),... Read more »

Border violations and disarmament drive define Lebanon’s “Homeland Shield” Plan

2025-11-28T16:36:16+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Beirut The Lebanese Army said it has completed most of the initial stage of the “Homeland Shield” plan in southern Lebanon,... Read more »

Rumors and panic: What’s really behind Iraq’s financial scare?

2025-11-28T06:50:59+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Economic confusion spread across Iraq in recent days as claims of “missing funds,” “salary delays,” and “cut livelihoods” circulated widely on social... Read more »