Shafaq News – Zurich The 21st Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) concluded in Switzerland with Father by Tereza Nvotová (Czech Republic/Poland/Slovakia) winning the Golden Eye Award in the Feature Film Competition. The closing... Read more »
JTA via New York Jewish Week — At first glance, the prayer book is one that’s found at countless Conservative synagogues across the country: Siddur Sim Shalom, which was published in 1985... Read more »
A recently leaked, 21-page document reveals a detailed plan to establish an international transitional authority for managing the Gaza Strip after the war, led by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The... Read more »
2025-10-06T20:18:58+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News In the parched plains of southern Iraq, the riverbeds are cracking. Once the lifeline of villages and marshlands, the waters of the... Read more »
A prominent Hezbollah operative in the terror group’s air defense array, who was reportedly blinded in Israel’s so-called pager attack last year, was killed in a drone strike in southern Lebanon on... Read more »
Shafaq News For centuries, the Kakai community—part of the broader Yarsani tradition—has quietly safeguarded one of Iraq’s oldest faiths. Shaped by ancient Kurdish spirituality and infused with mystical interpretations of Islam, the... Read more »
CAIRO (AP) — Israeli and Hamas officials are meeting in an Egyptian resort Monday in hopes of hammering out a potential ceasefire in Gaza on the eve of devastating war’s second anniversary.... Read more »
Two years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre at the Nova music festival in southern Israel, hundreds of bereaved families, survivors and friends gathered Sunday night in Tel Aviv for a memorial... Read more »
2025-10-05T22:08:30+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Delays in submitting Iraq’s 2025 budget to parliament could exacerbate the country’s financial and economic crisis, three Iraqi economic experts warned, citing... Read more »
The transformation of the war in Gaza into another real estate transaction by Donald Trump commenced simply with an image. Trump, with his broad shoulders, is captured standing on a red carpet... Read more »