The Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee to visit the Iraqi-Turkish bordersThe Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee to visit the Iraqi-Turkish borders

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee announced an upcoming visit to the border areas with Turkey to check the situation after the clashes between the Turkish Army and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

The Committee member Sakfan Sindi told Shafaq News Agency that a five-member delegation would soon visit the border

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Fuad Hussein discusses Ukraine's war with senior Italian diplomatFuad Hussein discusses Ukraine's war with senior Italian diplomat

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein received the Italian deputy minister of foreign affairs, Marina Sereni, in his bureau downtown the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier today, Wednesday.

A readout issued by the foreign affairs ministry said that Hussein discussed with his guest the bilateral ties between Baghdad and Rome and

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Official: SDF hands 50 ISIS militants to the Iraq authoritiesOfficial: SDF hands 50 ISIS militants to the Iraq authorities

Shafaq News/ Kurdish-led Syria's Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over fifty Iraqi persons with ties to the ISIS extremist group to the Iraqi authorities at the country's western border crossing of Trebil, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a press release on Wednesday.

JOC said that the Interior Ministry's federal intelligence agency will be

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Baghdad inaugurated 2nd phase of the green belt projectBaghdad inaugurated 2nd phase of the green belt project

Shafaq News / The Mayor of Baghdad, Ammar Kadhim, announced the launching of the second phase of the Baghdad green belt project.

This came during Kadhim's participation at a symposium held by the University of Technology, in cooperation with UNICEF, to discuss the impact of climate change on children and youth in Iraq.

A statement by the mayorship

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COVID-19: zero mortalities and 110 new cases in Iraq todayCOVID-19: zero mortalities and 110 new cases in Iraq today

Shafaq News/ Iraq logged 110 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Wednesday.

The daily epidemiological report stated that zero COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 105 patients had achieved full recovery.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the virus in Iraq

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Parliament throws the lecturers' salaries ball in the government's courtParliament throws the lecturers' salaries ball in the government's court

Shafaq News/ The finance committee in the Iraqi parliament has inquired the Ministry of Finance about extending the benefits of the emergency bill on food security to unpaid lecturers and contract employees, committee rapporteur Hasan al-Kaabi said on Wednesday.

"In coordination with the parliament presidium, we sent a correspondence to the

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