2025-11-07T19:34:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad (Updated on November 8 at 1:10) Food carts have become a familiar feature across Baghdad and several other Iraqi cities,... Read more »

Shafaq News Two decades after Iraq’s first democratic elections, the ballot box no longer carries the same promise it once did. What began in 2005 as an emblem of national renewal has,... Read more »

2025-11-07T10:33:54+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The U.S. dollar was on track for a modest weekly gain on Friday as investors sought to balance the Federal Reserve’s hawkish... Read more »

2025-11-06T19:42:22+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Beirut  Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described Thursday’s Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon as “a full-fledged crime and a heinous political offense.”... Read more »

Shafaq News In a move hailed as a “historic solution” to Iraq’s deepening water crisis, Baghdad and Ankara finalized an accord on November 2, 2025, pledging substantial investment in the water sector... Read more »

Shafaq News Six days before Iraq’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for November 11, the decision of the head of the Patriotic Shiite Movement (PSM), Muqtada al-Sadr, to boycott the vote continues to cast... Read more »

2025-11-06T11:45:08+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Once a pillar of Iraq’s cultural and economic life, the Feyli Kurds — a Shiite Kurdish community long marginalized and persecuted —... Read more »

Shafaq News Love is crossing new borders in Iraq. Once guided by tribal, sectarian, or local traditions, marriage is now reflecting the country’s growing connection to the wider world. In recent years,... Read more »

On November 11, Iraqis will head to the polls for parliamentary elections, the seventh since the 2003 U.S. invasion that ushered in free and fair multiparty politics. Despite a turbulent democratic transition,... Read more »