Iraq

2022-12-15T17:22:54.000000Z

Shafaq News/ The Spokesperson to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Major-General Yehya Rasool, refuted media reports claiming that a US journalist has gone missing in Iraq.

Rasool said in a statement that the reports about a missing US journalist in central or southern

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2022-12-15T14:52:28.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Iraq seeks expanded cooperation with the US to combat the impact of climate change and drought, Environment Minister Nizar Amidi told the US ambassador to Baghdad, Alina Romanowski, in a meeting on Thursday.

According to a readout issued by his bureau, Amidi discussed with

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2022-12-15T13:58:19.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Young lawmaker Nour Nafeh al-Jalihawi has joined the "Watan" Coalition, the recently-formed parliamentary bloc revealed on Thursday.

Al-Jalihawi was a member of the Emtidad parliamentary bloc until March 2022, when she resigned from the movement that emerged from the October

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2022-12-15T12:38:19.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Iraq and Iran on Thursday exchanged the remains of more than 100 soldiers killed in their 1980-88 war, which claimed the lives of one million people.

The bodies of 98 Iranians and three Iraqis were handed over at the border crossing point of Shalamcheh in southern Iraq,

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2022-12-15T13:52:49.000000Z

Shafaq News/ Baghdad is considering investments in Phosphate, Silicon, and other mineral resources in partnership with Amman, Iraq's minister of industry, Khalid Battal al-Najm, said in a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart, Salih al-Karabsheh, on Thursday.

The press

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2022-12-15T10:51:18.000000Z

 Shafaq News/ Iraq's federal intelligence agency apprehended three siblings in Baghdad for charges related to terrorism, an official statement said on Thursday.

The three brothers --codenamed Abu Azzam, Abu Mohammad, and Abu Hajar-- are wanted by the Iraqi judiciary in accordance with

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