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Iraq said that an electricity grid interconnection with Jordan will start production on July 1, reports Anadolu Agency. "Production will start with a capacity of 50 megawatts in the...
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Western-based Christian NGOs have been accused of exploiting the plight of northern Iraq's indigenous Yazidi community by trying to proselytise Christianity to them, according to a report yesterday by...
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A strong sandstorm hit Iraq's Najaf province disrupting visibility. Traffic has been badly affected by the sandstorm and dust which forced the suspension of flights.
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Article
May 26, 2023
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
It is unclear why 100-year-old Henry Kissinger has been elevated by Western intelligentsia to serve the role of the visionary in how the West should behave in response to...
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The Iraqi authorities recovered more than $20 million from Kuwait, after the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) held the amount for more than three decades, the Iraqi News Agency...
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Iraq and Saudi Arabia have discussed reviving an oil pipeline connection that was effective in the 1970s and 1980s, a senior Iraqi official revealed yesterday. "There are also thoughts...
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The Iraqi army has commenced an operation to dig a trench and establish security observation points around the Makhmour refugee camp, which hosts hundreds of families of members of...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has lost more than $1.5 billion since oil exports to Turkiye were stopped, according to a report published on Tuesday by the...
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Two people who took direct action to dismantle and occupy a weapons factory were given prison sentences on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of criminal damage. A third...
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Reviews
May 23, 2023
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Usman Butt
Could the end of liberalism be the end of diverse multi-ethnic states, from Indonesia to the United States? Azeem Ibrahim seems to think so and aims to make the...
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We no longer expect to see or hear anything from the moribund organisation that doesn't lift a finger to help the people it is supposed to represent, despite the...
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The Iraqi national fencing team withdrew from the individual competitions in the World Fencing Championship in Istanbul, a qualifier for the Paris Olympics, after the competition draw pitted it...
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Gunmen believed to belong to Daesh yesterday stormed a house in the Ibn Sina district of the Tarmiya district, north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing two members of...
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Lebanon has secured deals for more fuel supplies from Iraq, the two countries said on Tuesday, as Beirut battles to produce more power to help it emerge from years of...
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Director General of the Public Company for Rail in Iraq, Younus Khalid, announced on Tuesday the competition of designs for building a rail and road network with Turkiye. The...
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Intense efforts have been taking place recently to restore relations between Egypt and Iran, at a time when the region is experiencing major political changes amid a trend to...
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Funeral rights were held in the Iraqi city of Najaf for 45 people killed by Daesh. The unidentified bodies were exhumed from mass graves left by the terror group between 2014 and 2017
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The late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rejected a US proposal to name his vice president without power in return for his release, the head of Saddam's legal defence team...
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The prospect of Tayip Erdogan winning another presidential term in Turkiye would once have rung alarms around the Middle East, but after taking a more conciliatory stance in recent years his...
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Living in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City suburb for the past 15 years, Khodr Abbas, 73, had to walk along a mud and dirt track to get to his home,...
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Iraqi ambassador to "officially protest" the presence of Iranian "separatist groups" at an official ceremony held in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, AFP reported...
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One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on Sunday ended a months-long boycott of regional government cabinet meetings with its main coalition partner, easing tensions between factions...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to "drain the swamp of terrorism" in northern Iraq and Syria. Erdogan stressed his country's determination to eliminate terrorism in Turkiye's neighbouring...
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death a police officer blamed for leading a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi three years ago...
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Turkiye's National Intelligence Organisation "neutralised" Eyvaz Beyaz, a wanted senior PKK terrorist, in a cross-border operation in northern Iraq, security sources said on Sunday. Beyaz, codenamed Zerdest Karadeniz, was...
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Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad emphasised on Thursday the solidity of the relationship between Damascus and Tehran during his final meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, who visited Syria...
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Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said yesterday the army has killed 50 terrorists in northern Syria over the last ten days. Speaking at a public event held in Kayseri...
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The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced its plans to raise electricity production to 24,000 megawatts in May, an increase of 3,500 megawatts from the current production, local media reports....
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Interviews
May 2, 2023
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Hassina Mechaï
Egyptian author Shady Lewis' latest book opens the world of migrants to a Western audience
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The foreign ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and other Arab states agreed last month in Jeddah that the Arab world must play a leading role in efforts to...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Daesh leader, Abu Hussein Al-Qurashi, who was killed in Syria in an operation carried out by the Turkish intelligence forces, set...
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said the presence of even one American soldier in Iraq is "too much," reiterating his call for their ouster, reports Anadolu...