(2024-07-23). Iraq resumes rice cultivation with new climate friendly strain. newarab.com 
Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mahdi Sahar al-Jubouri told Reuters the country has earmarked 150 sq km (58 sq miles) for rice growing this season and forecast a yield of 150,000 tonnes, as officials said water is more abundant due to h…
(2024-07-23). UN warns Iraq becoming major regional drug conduit. newarab.com 
" In 2023 alone, authorities "seized a record-high 24 million captagon tablets", the equ…
(2024-07-23). The Iraq Report: Mosul's long road to recovery after IS. newarab.com 
Mosul, located 465 km northwest of Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris River, is the main city of Nineveh Governorate. It sits directly across from the ancient city of Nineveh and Jonah's Tomb, also known as Al-Nabi Yunus Mosque. | Strategically positioned, throughout history Mosul has connected China, the Mediterranean, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia as a crucial hub for trade and learning. Its Arabic name, meaning By the 6th century, Mosul had become a significant centre for the Assyrian Church of the East,…
(2024-07-23). Iraqi parliament to discuss key bills on general amnesty, PMF. newarab.com 
(2024-07-23). Iraqis protest over summer blackouts, water shortages. presstv.ir Hundreds of Iraqis in the southern province of Diwaniyah protest against power cuts and water shortages during the extreme heat of summer.
(2024-07-23). US convoy transfers missile launch systems from Iraq to eastern Syria. presstv.ir The US military has reportedly dispatched a military convoy carrying short-range Avenger air defense systems from Iraq to eastern Syria.
(2024-07-23). Iraq and US Discuss Timetable for Coalition Troop Withdrawal. themedialine.org 
(2024-07-23). Hunter Biden drops lawsuit against Fox News over explicit images in streaming series. scmp.com Lawsuit involves nude images shown in The Trial of Hunter Biden, which features 'mock trial' of president's son on charges he has not faced.
(2024-07-23). Karbala: Misunderstandings and Message. ummid.com The teachings of Karbala should not inspire us only during the month of Muharram but the whole year. The most important lesson from Karbala is to stand against falsehood even if you are handful in number.
Berlin police is arresting children at The most recent confirmed arrest of children involved the early June detention of a 7-year-old boy for allegedly hitting an officer's helmet with his flag. In a witness statement shown to The New Arab (TNA), the boy's father said he had been carrying his son on his shoulders at a march when they suddenly found themselves surrounded by officers who lashed out…
US shrugs off Baghdad's bid to broker Turkey-Syria talks | US officials paid lip service to Turkey and Syria reconciliation in their meeting with Iraq's top diplomat, putting more pressure on Kurdish-led SDF | | US soldiers patrol an area in town of Tal Hamis, southeast of Qameshli in Syria…
An explosion ripped through "logistics" warehouses belonging to former "At 7: 00 pm (1600 GMT) an explosion occurred in logistics warehouses belonging to the 42 Brigade in the Yusufiyah area, south of 
A Kurdish civilian was killed by a Turkish airstrike early on Thursday while the situation in Duhok province is 
Shia Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated The rift between Islam's two…
In September, the government signed an agreement with the 
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced Monday the At Baghdad's request, the UN Security Council decided unanimously at the end of May t…
The Iraqi Ministry of Justice on Monday denied allegations it is conducting Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Laibi Abdul Hussein in a 
On Tuesday night, several of Donald Trump's former rivals endorsed the Trump ticket, including former Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Vivek Ramaswamy. Much of the evening focused on the Republican Party's hard-line border and immigration policies. The 2024 Republican platform backs Trump's pledge to carry out the "largest deportation operation in American history" and to stop what it calls a "migrant crime epidemic." We speak with journalist Jean Guerrero, who says what was shown at the RNC was the "politics of hate&…
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A new Turkish military offensive launched last month has Nearly 200 families have evacuated their villages in affected areas in Duhok governorate as the fighting moves out of the mountains and gets closer to more densely populated areas. | Turkey has encroached on Iraq's territory for years. It operates a network of bases in the Kurdistan Region and regularly conducts cross-border airstrikes, which all too o…
President Turkey launched Operation Claw-Lock in April 2022 to secure its border with northern Iraq, from where it accused Kurdish separatists of launching attacks against Turkish territory. | "We will very soon complete the lockdown of the area of operation in norther…
Bodies of 139 likely Islamic State victims recovered from mass grave in Iraq | Remains of 'women and men' discovered in mass grave west of former IS stronghold of Mosul | | An aerial view of the "Khasfa" sinkhole, one of the sinkholes in the Mosul area used by Islamic State fighters as a mass grave,…
After the UNRWA Pledging Conference, 118 UN member states officially declared their participation in the Joint Commitments Initiative led by Jordan, Kuwait, and Slovenia, to support the important, life-saving word of the UNRWA. The initiative aims to provide support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) …
A traveller at the Cairo International Airport was caught trying to smuggle more than one million Egyptian pounds inside shawarma sandwich wraps. | The individual, whose initials were only revealed, was travelling to Kuwait on an Egyptair flight when airport security grew suspicious of their luggage contents, a source from the airport told local media. | Upon inspection, authorities found 1,253,000 Egyptian Pounds (around $26,100) packaged to appear like shawarma wraps. | The source added that legal measures had been taken against the traveller, an Egyptian national. | No further details were given on the matt…
When people say, "Joe Biden's a decent man," what Biden are they talking about? The man who befriended Strom Thurmond, the man who treated Anita Hill dismissively, the man who plagiarized Neil Kinnock's speeches, the man who crafted the most punitive and racist crime laws of the 20th Century, the man who voted for the Iraq war and armed a genocide? 
The Karkh Criminal Court in "The convicted terrorist detained Yazidi women in her house, who were then kidnapped by ISIS militants in the Sinjar district, west of Nineveh province," accordi…
The Turkish army has been mainly conducting strikes against the 
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has extended invitations to Iraqi Interior Mi…
Putin opposes Iraq as venue for Erdogan-Assad meeting | The Russian president favours a high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian leaders in Turkey rather than Baghdad | | Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands following a meeting…
The office, located in Baghdad's Al-Jadriya district near the Green Zone and political headquarters, follows…