Recession alert: 2025 budget deadlock threatens Iraq

2025-10-05T22:08:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Delays in submitting Iraq’s 2025 budget to parliament could exacerbate the country’s financial and economic crisis, three Iraqi economic experts warned, citing... Read more »

Unmet promises of Iraq’s Mental Health Law

2025-10-05T22:45:58+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News In a country weighed down by decades of wars, conflicts, and mass displacement, millions of Iraqis live with deep psychological scars. Within... Read more »

A pragmatist between two worlds: Khamenei entrusts Tehran’s security to Larijani

Shafaq News Amid one of Iran’s most volatile political junctures in years, Ali Larijani has reclaimed a powerful post that fuses security and strategy at the highest level of statecraft. In August... Read more »

The Pause Before the Storm: Gaza ceasefire is Netanyahu’s tripwire for 3-Front War

Shafaq News With Hamas announcing its conditional approval to engage in talks based on US President Donald Trump’s plan, including a ceasefire, hostage release, and the handover of Gaza’s administration to an... Read more »

Six years post-Tishreen uprising: Sacrifices outweigh political gain

Shafaq News Iraqis are marking the sixth anniversary of the protests that erupted in October 2019, when hundreds of thousands of young people flooded the streets in the largest popular uprising since... Read more »

Elections on schedule, legitimacy in doubt: Iraq heads toward November vote

Shafaq News With campaigning for Iraq’s parliamentary elections now underway, concerns continue to mount over the viability and integrity of the vote scheduled for November 11. While the Iraqi government and the... Read more »

Acts and unclear legislation: Legal pursuits in Iraq over blasphemy and “immoral content”

Shafaq News Over the past two years, Iraqi courts and security agencies have pursued dozens of cases against individuals accused of blasphemy or producing “immoral content.” In July 2024, a Mosul court... Read more »

Iraq’s political enigma: The unpredictable maneuvers of Muqtada al-Sadr

Shafaq News For more than fifteen years, the sudden “retirements” and repeated political maneuvers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Patriotic Shiite Movement (formerly Sadrist), have dominated Iraq’s political scene,... Read more »

Global outcry after Israeli interception of Gaza aid flotilla

2025-10-02T09:59:26+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Gaza Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday accused Israeli forces of abducting her after the Gaza Sumud (Resilience) Flotilla—an international civilian... Read more »

Armed factions in the region: Retrenchment, repositioning, or decline?

Shafaq News Once a constant presence on the frontlines, the region’s pro-Iranian armed factions are now less visible. Their silence, however, does not necessarily signal defeat. Analysts warn that under intensifying international... Read more »