Shafaq News/ The United Kingdom on Monday became a co-chair, alongside Japan, of the Iraq Economic Contact Group (IECG), a body aimed at supporting the Iraqi government in enacting reforms.

The announcement was made in a statement posted by the UK embassy to Iraq earlier today. 

The statement said that the G7 countries, the World Bank (WB), and the

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 3491 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Monday.

In its daily epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 1354 recovery cases and four mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2359755, of whom

Shafaq News/ Lawmaker Raed al-Maliki urged the Iraqi government to install surveillance camera systems in Maysan to curb the growing crime rates in the southern governorate.

"The weekly security breaches, crimes, killings, and burglaries in Maysan are no longer a secret," al-Maliki told Shafaq News Agency, "surveillance cameras are an effective way

Shafaq News/ Al-Nasr bloc will only participate in a "fixed-term" government under a "neutral polity formula", lawmaker Haidar al-Abadi said on Monday.

The Alliance of the State forces which al-Abadi, a former prime minister of Iraq, formed with Ammar al-Hakim, the head of al-Hekmah movement, has garnered 11 seats in the Iraqi parliament after the