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 »
As photos of hungry Palestinian children holding empty pots sparked mass protests condemning Israel for Gaza starvation and influenced international politics worldwide, a German investigation by Süddeutsche Zeitung reveals these powerful images... Read more »
Shafaq News Iraq is spiraling deeper into a water crisis as climate extremes, state mismanagement, and declining river inflows from upstream neighbors threaten to push the country toward environmental and humanitarian breakdown.... Read more »
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is expected to deliver a stark warning to the Diplomatic-Security Cabinet on Thursday, arguing against a full-scale conquest of the Gaza Strip. Zamir reportedly... Read more »
2025-08-06T08:40:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to pursue the “full occupation of the Gaza Strip” triggered political and military divisions... Read more »