Shafaq News – Al-Sulaymaniyah Each morning, before the market stirs to life, Saman Saeed unlocks the wooden door of his workshop in Sabunkaran (Sabun Karan), a historic open-air market known for its... Read more »
Standing outside Jerusalem’s Mir Yeshiva on Wednesday afternoon, Aryeh appeared relaxed, his demeanor at odds with the increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric of his community’s rabbinic leadership, which this week declared “war” against the... Read more »
The half-life moment Since around 2 p.m. on October 7, Hamas has become a different organization. Not really, of course. Just on television. Until that hour, its media arm was flooding the... Read more »
Gaza (1). The Diplomatic-Security Cabinet is set to meet Thursday evening to discuss the future of the war in Gaza. The options are familiar: maintaining the current situation; intensifying the encirclement and... Read more »
Shafaq News – Baghdad The maritime channel of Khor Abdullah, located at the southern edge of Iraq’s Basra province and separating Iraq’s al-Faw Peninsula from Kuwait’s Bubiyan Island, has once again returned... Read more »
The United States’ 15 percent tariff on imports from Israel took effect on Thursday, potentially costing the country billions of dollars, as part of a sweeping regime of international duties imposed by... Read more »
Shafaq News – Basra Basra Governor Asaad al-Eidani’s recent visit to Turkiye has drawn mixed political reactions across Iraq, particularly in the southern province he represents. Some officials view the trip as... Read more »
The Foundation for the Welfare of Holocaust Victims has confronted a severe volunteer shortage in recent days, declining from 3,000 volunteers before the war to just over 2,000 currently. Hundreds of Holocaust... Read more »
For over three decades, Devorah Halberstam, a Hasidic woman from the Chabad community, has carried the unimaginable pain of losing her son in a shooting attack and transformed it into a driving... Read more »
2025-08-06T21:37:55+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Below is a summary of key security and public safety incidents reported across Iraq on August 6, 2025. – Café Closed Over... Read more »