Shafaq News / Imad Qarghouli, Lt. Col in al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF), survived an assassination attempt in Baghdad, a security source reported.

No further details were disclosed.

Qarghouli heads "Ali al-Akbar brigade", affiliated with the PMF and the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala.

The brigade was formed following ISIS's invasion of the country in 2014.

Shafaq News/ The parliamentary finance committee is considering downsizing the budget of the emergency food security bill to less than 25 trillion dinars, committee member Nadhem al-Shebli said on Saturday.

"The bill has passed the first and second reading in the previous sessions of the parliament," al-Shebli said, "the finance committee has been

Shafaq News / Employees organized demonstrations in Baghdad protesting the government's decision to raise black oil prices.

Social media bloggers reported that the protestors blocked the main road near al-Dawra refinery.

The protestors also erected tents and blocked the road, social media posts showed.

The Oil Products Distribution Company of the

Shafaq News/ Iraq offered three hundred thousand dollars in financial aid to Lebanese judges, four Iraqi and Lebanese sources revealed on Saturday.

Earlier in January, 2022, a delegation headed by Lebanon's Minister of Justice, Henry Khoury, and head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Sohail Abboud, held a series of meetings with senior Iraqi