EXPLAINER: Kirkuk installs its first Turkmen Governor in two decades, but not everyone accepts it

Shafaq News A political session held in a Baghdad hotel nearly two years ago was supposed to end a governance deadlock in one of Iraq’s most divided provinces. Today, the parties who... Read more »

What does it actually change?

At the end of March, in the middle of the war with Iran and right as a contentious state budget received final approval, the Israeli Knesset passed a law making the death... Read more »

“Deleting the Zeros”: What Iraq Actually Said, and What It Means for Your Investment

By Guest Blogger. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. “Deleting the Zeros” — What Iraq Actually Said, and What... Read more »

Jewish fantasy is having a moment — start with these 6 books

Jewish writers have a long, time-honored tradition of spinning the fantastical, from the numerous Jewish fairy tales and folktales that have been retold for generations to modern stories that remix old legends... Read more »

New Yorkers hear Holocaust survivor stories over coffee in ‘sip and listen’ – JNS.org

( Apr. 15, 2026 / JNS ) At three Manhattan cafés this Yom Hashoah, history was not delivered from a podium or in a book. It was spoken over coffee, across small... Read more »

Ohio attorney general sues Hebrew Union College again – JNS.org

( Apr. 15, 2026 / JNS ) Dave Yost, the Ohio attorney general, filed another lawsuit against the main Reform Judaism training center to force its Cincinnati campus to remain open, the... Read more »

Iraq’s oil bottleneck: Abundance trapped by dependency

Shafaq News On March 3, 2026, Iraq’s southern oilfields began going dark. The trigger was the closure of the Strait of Hormuz —the narrow waterway through which roughly a fifth of global... Read more »

Bennett names 23-year-old reservist activist Yonatan Shalev to party slate

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday that he has appointed Yonatan Shalev, a 23-year-old military reservist activist, as the newest addition to his party’s electoral slate ahead of the 2026... Read more »

One lightly wounded by Hezbollah rocket strike on Arab-Israeli city – JNS.org

( Apr. 15, 2026 / JNS ) One person sustained light wounds when a rocket fired by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon hit the Arab-Israeli city of Tamra on Wednesday morning, medical... Read more »

Israel-Lebanon talks unlikely to yield much until Iran undergoes fundamental change

There is a clear difference in the way the US and Israel on one hand, and Lebanon on the other, are speaking about the direct talks in Washington between the two longtime... Read more »