Illustrator Zeev Engelmayer, popularly known as “Shoshke,” began drawing “Daily Postcards” in the weeks after the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught. The illustrations posted on his Instagram account embodied the horror, fear... Read more »
Shafaq News Through the winding alleys of Kirkuk Citadel, where centuries of dust and history linger in the air, a green dome rises above the old quarter. Known locally as the Baghdadi... Read more »
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado earned the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recognition Friday, with the Norwegian Nobel Committee honoring her sustained democratic advocacy and efforts toward peaceful governmental transition from Venezuela’s... Read more »
Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq has moved aggressively in 2025 to overhaul its gas sector—pushing capture projects, sealing multi-billion-dollar partnerships, and tying the effort to electricity security and an export ambition by... Read more »
The Justice Ministry released Friday a list of 250 life-sentence prisoners serving terms for murder and involvement in deadly attacks set to be released as part of the deal with Hamas. The... Read more »
After 734 days of war, US President Donald Trump officially announced that Israel and Hamas have approved the first phase of the peace plan, a deal that will lead to ending the... Read more »
The Israel Defense Forces completed a withdrawal to agreed-upon deployment lines in the Gaza Strip on Friday at noon, officially beginning a ceasefire and a 72-hour countdown during which Hamas is to... Read more »
2025-10-10T07:36:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad As Iraq moves toward its parliamentary elections on November 11, 2025, the debate over electoral integrity has re-emerged, driven by... Read more »
New Middle East The last time the Knesset convened during the festival of Sukkot was on October 16, 1973. Prime Minister Golda Meir stood before the plenum to announce that the IDF had... Read more »
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, Chief Strategist of AFC Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. A tour of Basra,... Read more »