PARIS — Iran released a 19-year-old French-German dual citizen days after throwing out spying charges against him, the French foreign minister told AFP on Wednesday. “Lennart Monterlos is free,” said Jean-Noel Barrot,... Read more »
Saul Zabar, the principal owner of Zabar’s, the iconic Jewish food emporium on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, has died at age 97. His daughter Anne said the cause of death was a... Read more »
2025-10-08T06:04:44+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad On a humid afternoon in the Iraqi capital, Abeer stopped at a street vendor to buy a small bottle of... Read more »
The family of slain American-Israeli hostage Omer Neutra was hosted by US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, as was freed hostage Edan Alexander, also a dual American-Israeli citizen,... Read more »
A senior Egyptian source sought to project optimism Tuesday evening despite the growing list of demands from Hamas. In an interview with the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat, the source said the Trump-backed plan... Read more »
2025-10-07T22:10:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The run-up to Iraq’s November 2025 parliamentary elections reveals a striking shift in political participation, as figures from entertainment and social media... Read more »
The last recording of Omer Neutra is still chilling two years on, as if the black Shabbat were only yesterday. Omer calls for help and the war room replies with a spine-tingling... Read more »
Shafaq News Artificial intelligence (AI), celebrated worldwide as a driver of innovation, is increasingly being turned into a weapon of abuse. Across Iraq, women have reported being targeted by fabricated videos, cloned... Read more »
British Health Minister Wes Streeting said Monday that the UK National Health Service (NHS) is “completely failing to protect Jewish patients” amid a rising wave of antisemitism from medical staff since the... Read more »
Shafaq News Iraq will hold its next parliamentary elections on Monday, 11 November 2025, under the supervision of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC). The race is highly competitive, with 31 coalitions,... Read more »