Partners Sign Key Contracts for Iraq’s Gas Growth Integrated Project

By John Lee. TotalEnergies, in partnership with Basra Oil Company (30%) and QatarEnergy (25%), has signed the final contracts of the Gas Growth Integrated Project (GGIP) at the Ratawi [Artawi] field in... Read more »

Contracts over conflict: How PM Al-Sudani secured stability in Iraq

Shafaq News Explosions targeting US bases in Iraq were once almost daily events, leaving casualties and pushing the country to the brink of a wider confrontation. These attacks were more than military... Read more »

Toronto Film Festival announces winners of its 50th edition

2025-09-16T18:15:23+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Toronto The 50th Toronto International Film Festival concluded in Canada with Hamnet by Chloé Zhao (United Kingdom) earning the People’s Choice... Read more »

Beyond Condemnation: Will Doha Summit drive Arab States toward collective action?

2025-09-16T09:37:59+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The Arab-Islamic summit in Doha ended with a strong communiqué condemning Israel’s September 9 strike on Qatar and pledging full solidarity with... Read more »

Chaldean Patriarch rejects proposed amendments to Iraq’s religious endowments law

2025-09-16T08:17:35+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako on Tuesday called for rejecting proposed amendments to the law governing the Endowments Office... Read more »

IFC in Iraq announces $1bn in New Investments

IFC Marks 20 Years of Partnerships for Impact in Iraq, Announces $1bn in New Investments The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, held an IFC Partnerships Day... Read more »

Salafi’s Madkhali Movement in Iraq: Stability or division?

2025-09-15T14:45:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The dispute that erupted in Baghdad’s Dora district last week, ending with the sudden death of Sheikh Abdul Sattar al-Qurghuli, has sharpened... Read more »

Iraq: A soft target in the Middle East’s cyber battlefield

Shafaq News The Iraqi National Cybersecurity Center on Saturday denied reports of widespread cyberattacks on government platforms, insisting that only a limited number of institutions were affected without any disruption to essential... Read more »

Iraq’s psychological wounds: A generation scarred by conflict

Shafaq News N.S. (pseudonym) was still a teenager when sectarian violence tore through Iraq in the mid-2000s. She stood frozen as her father was shot dead, the sound of her mother and... Read more »

Leaks and smear politics: Iraq’s elections under the shadow of distrust

Shafaq News Iraq heads toward its parliamentary elections on November 11, 2025, with campaigns defined more by attacks on opponents rather than by policy proposals. Across Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish camps, rivals... Read more »