2026-05-13T22:49:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Washington Iraqi political satirist Ahmed Al-Basheer on Wednesday delivered a public critique of Iraq’s post-2003 political order, mocking the opaque rise of... Read more »

(Photo: A woman votes at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in Karbala, 2021. REUTERS/Abdullah Dhiaa Al-deen) On April 27, Iraq took an important step towards resolving its months-long political deadlock... Read more »

Shafaq News Every summer, when Iraq’s electricity grid begins to strain under rising temperatures, the crisis that follows is never just technical. It is geopolitical. On one side, gas flows from Iran... Read more »

2026-05-12T21:28:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Riyadh Saudi Arabia carried out previously undisclosed airstrikes inside Iran earlier this year in retaliation for attacks targeting the kingdom during the... Read more »

2026-05-12T15:00:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Before spring slips away each year, Suad Ali follows a journey she has known since childhood. Alongside her mother and grandmother,... Read more »

Shafaq News When Abu Ali delivered his wheat harvest to government warehouses in Najaf province this season, he received what the Iraqi state offers every farmer who completes the handover: an official... Read more »

Shafaq News Iraq’s higher education system is contending with an expanding market for purchased academic research and fraudulent degrees, with disciplinary measures proving insufficient to reverse a pattern that academics warn is... Read more »

2026-05-09T19:35:14+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News While displaced residents watch Israel raze their land from afar, the Lebanese government warns that environmental damage in the South could take... Read more »

2026-05-08T12:09:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Najaf Muqtada Al-Sadr, leader of the Patriotic Shiite Movement (PSM), called on Friday for all armed factions in Iraq to be integrated... Read more »