Shafaq News More than a decade after the US-led Global Coalition was formed to defeat ISIS, Iraq is entering a decisive phase. The September 2025 deadline for US troop withdrawals, set in... Read more »
During the upcoming national day of protest and disruption planned for Tuesday, calling for an end to the war and the release of the hostages, Lev Cinemas will host a screening of... Read more »
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum announced that it would lead a national “day of struggle” on Tuesday aimed at calling for a deal to secure the release of their loved ones... Read more »
Bracha Levinson was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in a livestreamed attack, when her Kibbutz Nir-Oz home burned along with the family wedding dress she had designed and was... Read more »
Shafaq News The detention of twenty-five young Kurdish men from Al-Sulaymaniyah by Libya’s Anti-Illegal Migration Authority west of Tripoli has once again cast a spotlight on Iraq’s deepening migration dilemma. The Iraqi... Read more »
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration about moving to comprehensive hostage deal negotiations, and the cabinet’s decision several days later on taking control of Gaza City (and subsequently the central camps), have brought... Read more »
2025-08-24T17:17:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Walking through the alleys of Baghdad, 70-year-old Aqil al-Yasiri pauses to observe the houses—old and new—shaking his head at what he calls... Read more »
The Israeli army uprooted thousands of olive trees in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir — an area of about 300 dunams (74 acres) — over the past three days, following a... Read more »
Israel has assessed that “at least one or two” hostages held in Gaza are in life-threatening condition, according to a Hebrew media report on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump suggested... Read more »
Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv and across Israel on Saturday night in weekly protests calling on the government to make a deal with the Hamas terror group for a hostage... Read more »