2026-05-17T21:41:13+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Huge swarms of mosquitoes and rodents are spreading across Baghdad and other Iraqi provinces as rising temperatures and stagnant water create... Read more »
2026-05-17T16:05:41+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah Al-Sulaymaniyah Governor Haval Abu Bakr on Sunday urged Iran’s newly appointed consul to the province to end military strikes and bombardment... Read more »
By Halo Hassan Saeed* While most international discussions surrounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focus on railways, highways, ports, oil pipelines, and maritime trade routes, another strategic dimension is quietly reshaping... Read more »
Shafaq News An Israeli airstrip, a dead soldier, and a Wall Street Journal scoop —how a secret base in Iraq’s western desert exposed the gap between Baghdad’s sovereign claims and the foreign... Read more »
2026-05-16T05:20:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Oil prices gained more than 3% on Saturday, after comments by U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister further dented hopes... Read more »
2026-05-15T23:11:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Saladin One of Iraq’s Tikrit’s most mysterious heritage sites, known locally as “Qasr al-Bint” (Palace of the Girl), continues to fuel debate... Read more »
2026-05-15T14:30:33+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Five of Iraq’s “most powerful” Shiite political figures are in advanced discussions to form a new parliamentary alliance, a well-informed source... Read more »
Shafaq News Every Iraqi government since 2003 has arrived with a program containing the same commitments: weapons under state control, anti-corruption measures, electricity reform, banking restructuring, agricultural development, reduced oil dependence, improved... Read more »
2026-05-14T12:41:25+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Kirkuk The death sentence handed down by Baghdad’s Rusafa Criminal Court against a former Saddam-era prison official drew widespread welcome across Iraq... Read more »
2026-05-14T08:14:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Agriculture graduates in Iraq are struggling to find work despite government efforts to revive the country’s agricultural sector through development projects,... Read more »