Shafaq News – Baghdad A death sentence handed down by an Iraqi court against a Syrian national convicted of terrorism has unsettled the country’s large Syrian refugee community and reignited debate over... Read more »
Deceased hostages Amiram Cooper, 85, and Sahar Baruch, 25, were officially identified Thursday evening at the National Center of Forensic Medicine. Their caskets were transferred by Hamas in the afternoon to the... Read more »
They gathered me around the patio table — four faces I’d trusted for years, some since the first week of college. One by one, they spoke. They told me that joining the... Read more »
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men gathered at the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday for a “million man” protest against military conscription, which quickly turned deadly after a 20-year-old man fell to... Read more »
2025-10-30T16:42:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News The Japanese yen tumbled against the U.S. dollar on Thursday after the Bank of Japan adopted a less hawkish tone than traders... Read more »
In Sweden — a country more associated with ABBA than Abraham — Yiddish has quietly returned to public life. Once a fading echo of Eastern Europe, it’s now one of Sweden’s officially... Read more »
2025-10-30T11:15:04+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Beirut Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday ordered Army Commander Rodolphe Haykal to respond to any future Israeli incursions, following an... Read more »
Chief Military Advocate Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi took leave Wednesday after dramatic turns in the investigation into the Sde Teiman video leak showing the treatment of Palestinian terrorists, according to an IDF spokesperson... Read more »
Wall Street was bracing for a pivotal moment in the artificial intelligence race today, as tech titans Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Meta are all set to report their quarterly earnings. The results... Read more »
Shafaq News Iraq’s political landscape entered a new phase of uncertainty following Muqtada al-Sadr’s renewed call to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for November 11, 2025 — a move that has... Read more »