Shafaq News/ The Kurdish President, Nechirvan Barzani, met, on Wednesday, with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf and the accompanying delegation, which included the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, the U.S. Consul General in the Kurdistan Region, Irvin Hicks Jr, and American diplomats.

According to Barzani's office, both

Shafaq News/ Iranian Minister of Interior Ahmed Wahidi will be heading to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, later today, Wednesday, Fars news agency reported.

The semi-official news agency said that Wahidi will hold a series of meetings with Iraqi government officials to address difficulties Iranian pilgrims are facing and help facilitate their entrance

Shafaq News/ Austria will have its diplomatic representation in Iraq reinstated after a thirty-year halt, Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release on Wednesday.

The ministry said that Vienna is reopening its embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in September, 2022.

As things stand, there is no official confirmation from Vienna's

Shafaq News/ Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Wednesday said that an early parliamentary election in Iraq should stand upon solid "political and legal" grounds, attributing the Baghdad-Erbil disputes to the former's non-compliance with the constitution.

Barzani's remarks came during a meeting with a US diplomatic delegation headed by the United