2026-06-11T22:55:48+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Long before the opening whistle of the FIFA World Cup sounded in distant stadiums, Baghdad had already begun its own celebration. Iraqi... Read more »
I am old enough to remember when, in 2023, the film industry granted its highest honor, the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, to “Navalny,” a documentary about Russian opposition leader Alexei... Read more »
Shafaq News- Mexico City The 2026 FIFA World Cup opens Thursday with a ceremony in Mexico City at 8:30 PM Baghdad time, launching the largest tournament in football history and a 39-day... Read more »
About a month ago, a Shiite woman from one of the villages in southern Lebanon spoke with a Lebanese online media outlet. “We left (home) not because of the airstrikes,” the woman... Read more »
2026-06-11T13:34:57+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Gaza/ West Bank An Israeli officer was seriously wounded, and a soldier lightly injured when an explosive device detonated during an Israeli... Read more »
Israel did not take part in the US strikes on targets in Iran that began on Sunday night and resumed overnight. At the same time, as part of the close ties between... Read more »
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan characterized Israeli military operations across Syria and Lebanon as a direct threat to Turkey on Wednesday, Reuters reported, with the Turkish leader declaring Israel’s “aggression” endangered the... Read more »
Shafaq News The man in the ward does not look like someone under sentence. His day begins with exercise, then classes and vocational training, before he returns at night to a room... Read more »
US President Donald Trump announced that a secret American operation has been underway for about a month to move oil tankers and merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz. “Last month, I... Read more »
NOAM Welcome to Wondering Jews with Mijal and Noam. I’m Noam, and today we don’t have Mijal here with me, but I’m with Kathleen Sabogal, who is the director of the Rose... Read more »