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Iraq security brief: Repatriation, drug busts, and political arrests
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T21:11:56+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News Below is a summary of key security incidents reported across Iraq on August 28, 2025. - Human Trafficking (Baghdad) Security forces dismantled a trafficking network in Arab...
Funding crunch shuts down Iraq’s al-Anbar mosques
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T21:34:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Al-Anbar The Sunni Endowment Directorate in Iraq’s al-Anbar is facing a severe financial crisis that has left dozens of mosques without electricity or basic services,...
Iraq to press Turkiye, Iran for water releases
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T19:50:40+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Supreme Water Council agreed on Thursday to press Turkiye and Iran to increase water releases into the country’s river basins, as part of a strategy to...
Iraq’s Bahr al-Najaf faces severe drought threat
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T20:01:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Najaf The Bahr al-Najaf basin is witnessing a sharp decline in water levels, raising concerns it could dry up completely, local authorities said on Thursday. Bahr al-Najaf,...
Morocco and Iraq sign judicial cooperation accords in Rabat
Hespress
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August 28, 2025
HESPRESS English – Morocco News Politics Hespress ENThursday 28 August 2025 - 23:16 Morocco and Iraq signed two key judicial cooperation agreements on Thursday in Rabat, during an official visit by Iraqi Justice Minister Khaled Shawani. He was...
Iraq eyes end to refined product imports after refinery upgrades
Hellenic Shipping News
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August 28, 2025
Iraq is poised to stop importing refined products by early next year after hiking its refining capacity to 1.3 million b/d, according to the country’s prime minister and a senior oil official. In comments to state news agency INA on Aug. 25, prime...
Iraq Unveils Migration Plan To Promote Safe Pathways For Iraqis Returning Home
RTTNews
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August 28, 2025
Iraq has taken a historic step with the launch of its first ever national migration plan, designed to promote safe, orderly and regular pathways for Iraqis returning home and around 370,000 migrants living and working inside the country. Unveiled...
Iraq Is Struggling With an Energy Crisis Despite Its Oil Wealth
Oil Price
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August 28, 2025
One of OPEC’s major oil producers, Iraq, has been tackling an ongoing energy crisis, which plunged the country into darkness in August. Despite being one of the world’s biggest oil powers, years of political turmoil, the mismanagement of public...
Iraq seeks to become regional telecom companies’ hub
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T15:17:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq is aiming to solidify its strategic position to become an attractive hub for regional and international companies, the Minister of Communications, Hayam...
Iraq achieves peak growth in higher education institutions
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T14:27:06+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad More than 300 colleges and scientific departments have been established within just three years, Iraq’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Naeem...
Taqaddum Party factions exchange fire in Iraq's Diyala province
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T18:54:42+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Diyala Supporters and security personnel of two factions of the Progress (Taqaddum) Party, led by former Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, clashed in Bahraz, the...
Iraq expects gasoline self-sufficiency in 2025
Shafaq News
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August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T14:31:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq is on track to achieve self-sufficiency in gasoline production this year with the launch of two new refinery projects in Basra and Kirkuk, Deputy Prime Minister...
Iraq imports +$600M Jordanian goods in H1 2025
Shafaq News
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August 28, 2025
2025-08-28T15:01:31+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq ranked the second-largest Arab importer of Jordanian products in the first half of 2025, with imports valued at 431M Jordanian dinars ($607M). A report from...
Iraq’s Maysan: Candidate and campaign team arrested for buying voter cards
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T11:43:35+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Maysan A parliamentary candidate and four members of his campaign team, were arrested on charges of buying voter cards in exchange for promises of government jobs and social...
Iraq jails ex-MP for insulting Shiite politicians
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T11:49:59+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad On Thursday, an Iraqi court sentenced former lawmaker Mohammed al-Daini to six months in prison and ordered his immediate detention, according to MP Mustafa Jabbar...
Iraq repatriates 230+ families from Syria’s Al-Hol camp
Shafaq News
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2025-08-28T13:02:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Damascus / Baghdad Over 800 Iraqi nationals left al-Hol camp in Syria’s Hasakah province on Thursday under tight security provided by the US-led Global Coalition. Shukri...
Iraq pushes for closure of Syria's Al Hol displacement camp with New York meeting
The National News
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Iraq has invited dozens of nations to a conference in New York in September aimed at dismantling Syria's Al Hol camp for people displaced by the fight against ISIS, which lies near the border between the two countries. Baghdad views the camp as a...
Iraq’s Ruling Alliance Backs Down on PMF Legislation
Asharq Al-Awsat
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August 28, 2025
Iraq’s ruling Shi’ite alliance has suspended efforts to pass legislation granting sweeping institutional powers to the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), in a move aimed at easing tensions with Washington and buying time until the...
Study visit of experts from the Central Bank of Iraq
Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic
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From 26 to 27 May, the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic organised a study visit for a delegation from the Central Bank of Iraq, during which experts from the Ministry shared their knowledge and practical experience. Representatives from...
Hyderabad expat among 4 killed in bus-truck collision in Iraq
The Siasat Daily
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August 28, 2025
Baghdad: A Hyderabad expat, Syed Akber Ali Abedi, was among four people killed in a tragic bus-truck collision in southern Iraq while returning to Kuwait after attending the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala. The Indian Embassy in Iraq confirmed the...