Shafaq News/ A former lawmaker who is close to al-Hannana, Muqtada al-Sadr's headquarters, said that the head of the State of Law bloc, Nouri al-Maliki, is usually "more strongly-worded" that what it appeared in the recently leaked audio recordings attributed to him.

"Audio recordings attributed to al-Maliki are true," MP Fattah al-Sheik told

Shafaq News/ Two persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS have been captured while attempting to enter Kirkuk, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Sunday.

SMC said that the arrestees were being traced by the intelligence department of the eighth mechanized division.

Upon trying to enter Kirkuk, the two terrorists were apprehended

Shafaq News/ Independent lawmaker Sajjad Salem on Sunday accused me of al-Hashd al-Shaabi's (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) chairperson and Chief-of-Staff of killing and abducting activists during the mass protests that swept Iraq in October 2019.

In a tweet titled "arms outside the framework of state", Salem said that the sacrifices of those who

Shafaq News/ Baghdad-Erbil's joint action on the outskirts of Khanaqin curtailed 90 percent of the attacks waged by extremists group near the borders of the Kurdistan region, a commander of the Peshmerga forces said on Saturday.

In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, the commander of the Peshmerga's third brigade-first axis, Colonel Jalil Mam Faiq,