Shafaq News/ The United States is committed to taking meaningful action to combat to help Iraq meet future climate challenges, US ambassador to Baghdad, Alina Romanowski, said in a climate crisis op-ed on Saturday.

"Blazing hot temperatures, blinding sandstorms, and enduring droughts are now realities that negatively impact nearly every facet of

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Minister of Interior, Othman al-Ghanmi, on Saturday headed an expanded meeting of top security commanders to discuss the preparations for the multi-million pilgrimage of the Arbaeen, the world's largest religious annual gathering.

The Arbaeen marks the end of a 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual that

Shafaq News/ Iraq cannot be reduced into a single "political, sectarian, or ethnic" perspective, the head of al-Hekmah movement, Ammar al-Hakim, told Japan's outgoing ambassador to Baghdad Suzuki Kotaro in a meeting on Saturday.

According to a readout issued by his bureau, al-Hakim said that Iraq could benefit from the Japanese experience in

Shafaq News/ The leaders of the Coordination Framework are not considering the resumption of the parliament's meetings prior to the Arbaeen anniversary to avoid goading influential Shiite clergyman Muqtada al-Sadr, a source from inside the mainly Iran-backed Shiite consortium said on Saturday.

"In a meeting held a few hours ago in the residence of