2025-12-27T07:10:37+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad With just days remaining before the first session of the new Iraqi parliament, the contest over the speakership has moved... Read more »

 Shafaq News Iraq’s economy followed a complex trajectory in 2025, marked by strong oil revenues alongside persistent structural weaknesses, uneven progress across productive sectors, and delays in long-awaited reforms. Oil remained the... Read more »

2025-12-26T21:00:16+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Erbil By Manish Rai* The Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), constitute a highly effective and well-trained... Read more »

Shafaq News In winter, snow settles gently on Mount Sinjar, blurring the line between ruin and landscape. From a distance, the city below appears calm — almost untouched — as if time... Read more »

Shafaq News Iraq enters 2026 under a new parliament shaped by dominant political blocs, and the country confronts a critical test: whether the next four years will bring meaningful protection for journalists... Read more »

Shafaq News A single word spoken during a Christmas Mass in Baghdad has exposed how tightly Iraq’s political red lines now encircle public language itself. When Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako referred... Read more »

Shafaq News In a land where civilizations were born, and religions lived side by side long before the borders of modern states were drawn, Iraq’s Christian presence endures like an old bell—weathered... Read more »

Shafaq News Several leading Iran-aligned Iraqi armed faction leaders unexpectedly announced their acceptance of disarmament initiatives, a subject that until recently sparked some of the sharpest divisions in Iraq’s political arena. Not... Read more »

Shafaq News Iraq’s decision to treat social media influencers as high-risk financial clients was meant to protect the banking system from money laundering and fictitious contracts. But after the Central Bank of... Read more »