(2024-07-17).   Shias in Lebanon and Iraq commemorate Ashura amid Gaza war.  newarab.com 
 Shia Muslims Wednesday in Lebanon and Iraq commemorated The rift between Islam's two…
 (2024-07-17).   Iraq invites private companies to operate Baghdad airport.  newarab.com 
 In September, the government signed an agreement with the 
 (2024-07-17).   António Guterres names new head for UNAMI.  newarab.com 
 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…
 (2024-07-17).   Iraqi justice ministry denies allegations of 'secret executions'.  newarab.com 
 The Iraqi Ministry of Justice on Monday denied allegations it is conducting Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Laibi Abdul Hussein in a 
 (2024-07-17).   "Politics of Hate": Writer Jean Guerrero on Anti-Immigrant Lies and Fearmongering at RNC.  democracynow.org 
 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&…
(2024-07-17). US airbase in Iraq targeted by drones in second such attack in months. presstv.ir The Ain al-Asad air base housing US troops in Iraq has come under a fresh drone attack.
(2024-07-17). 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.
(2024-07-17). US says ISIL trying 'to reconstitute' amid uptick in Syria, Iraq attacks. aljazeera.com In the first six months of the year, the group has claimed 153 attacks in Syria and Iraq.
 (2024-07-17).   Armed Drones Target US-Hosted Airbase in Iraq, Prompting Increased Security Measures.  themedialine.org 
 
(2024-07-17). Iran-Kuwait Ties Serve Regional Stability: Baqeri. tn.ai TEHRAN (Tasnim) — Closer cooperation between Iran and Kuwait is a key factor in ensuring and strengthening regional stability, the caretaker foreign minister of Iran said.
 On the eastern outskirts of When the 
 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…
 
 
 The Arab Liaison Committee on The committee, form…
 In UK news Julian Assange has been released from HM Prison Belmarsh after accepting a plea deal with American prosecutors. Assange pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act, for communicating with whistleblower Chelsea Manning and receiving and publishing classified information regarding Guantanamo Bay, the Afghan and Iraq war, and US …
 The Diversity Fire Tour, I caught up with Iraqi-American sensation Contrasting this with her sunny Italian holiday the previous week, Reem remarked, "Is it freaking cold? Yes… But I love London; it reminds me a lot of New York, which is my favourite city on earth. The comedy here is great, the people are awesome."  |  A viral clip from her debut comedy set, titled 
 An Samir Younis, 67, was handed over to Egypt by Kuwait around five years ago, the report states.  |  Younis, a former university professor at Egypt's Helwan University had been working in Kuwait for over 25 years.  |  He was wanted, and later convicted by the E…