Shafaq News/ Iraq ranked high in an annual global hunger index, a tool calculated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to assess progress in combating hunger efforts worldwide.

Eighteen countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Cuba, Kuwait, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Chile, China, Belarus, Bosnia, and

Shafaq News/ A group of ISIS militants reportedly attacked and detonated a religious site for the Sunni Muslims in the sub-district of al-Abbara, northeast Diyala, earlier today, Monday.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that a group of four militants clashed with the security forces in the vicinity of Sheikh Shaaban at dawn on Monday.

"The

Shafaq News/ A member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's bloc in the Iraqi parliament, Mahma Khalil Ali Agha, on Monday said that the trilateral coalition that brings together the KDP, the Sadrist, and al-Siyada blocs is more solid than ever, hinting at a possible formation of the federal government within the next 30 days.

In a statement to

Shafaq News/ A force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) captured a commander of an ISIS sleeper cell, a PMF media officer said on Monday.

In a statement to Shafaq News Agency, the public relations officer of the PMF's ninth brigade, Abu Hussein al-Janabi, told Shafaq News Agency that "a force from [the ninth] brigade's