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Blistering Heatwave Grips Iraq
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) An intense heatwave is gripping Iraq, pushing temperatures beyond 50 degrees Celsius across 13 provinces on Monday, according to a statement from the Iraqi Meteorological Organization and Seismology. The peak temperature hit 51 degrees...
Gunfire Claims Two Lives in Baghdad Ministry Assault
MENAFN
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July 28, 2025
(MENAFN) A federal police officer and a civilian lost their lives Sunday when armed assailants launched an attack on the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture's office in Baghdad, according to a source from the Interior Ministry. The ministry reported...
Iraq Deploys Twenty Firefighting Teams to Syria as Wildfires Persist
MENAFN
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July 12, 2025
(MENAFN) Iraq's Civil Defense Directorate announced on Thursday that it is deploying 20 firefighting teams to Syria’s northwestern Latakia province, where devastating wildfires have been burning for over a week. Nawas Sabah, head of the Civil...
Dwelling Fire in Iraq Leaves Four Dead
MENAFN
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July 24, 2025
(MENAFN) A devastating fire engulfed a residential building in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of at least four people and critically injuring two more, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source told media. The blaze ignited in the...
Rubio Urges Iraq to Deal with Energy Attacks
MENAFN
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July 23, 2025
(MENAFN) U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently held a phone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to discuss a string of assaults on Iraq’s energy facilities, including those run by American firms, according to a...
Iraq starts project to expand al-Diwaniyah Refinery
MENAFN
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July 8, 2025
(MENAFN) Iraq has officially begun an $800 million project to expand the al-Diwaniyah Refinery, located in the southern province of Diwaniyah. The expansion was inaugurated by Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani through a virtual...
Iraq Launches USD800M Refinery Upgrade to Fuel Oil Export Growth
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN) Iraq on Monday launched an ambitious $800 million expansion of the al-Diwaniyah Refinery in the country’s southern Diwaniyah province. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani officially inaugurated the al-Diwaniyah Refinery...
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever kills thirty civilians in Iraq
MENAFN
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July 21, 2025
(MENAFN) The number of deaths linked to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq has reached 30, with health officials confirming 231 cases across the country since the start of the year, according to reports from the Iraqi Health Ministry....
PKK fighters start public disarmament in Iraq
MENAFN
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July 21, 2025
(MENAFN) At the base of a mountain in northern Iraq, thirty members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — half of them women — threw their rifles into a fire near a cave close to the town of Dukan, approximately 60 kilometers from Sulaymaniyah....
U.S. Denounces Drone Attacks on Iraqi Oil Fields
MENAFN
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July 20, 2025
(MENAFN) The United States sharply condemned a series of drone attacks targeting oil fields in the Iraqi Kurdish region on Wednesday, emphasizing the threat these assaults pose to the country’s stability and economic progress. State Department...
Devastating Fire Engulfs Shopping Center in Iraq, Killing Over 60
MENAFN
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July 20, 2025
(MENAFN) A devastating fire engulfed a shopping center in eastern Iraq on Thursday, resulting in at least 61 fatalities and prompting the rescue of dozens, the country’s Interior Ministry confirmed. The inferno erupted in Kut, the capital city of...
Iraqi security forces kill three IS militants
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN) Iraqi security forces have killed three Islamic State (IS) militants during a counter-terrorism operation in northern Iraq, the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service said Monday. The operation, based on intelligence reports, took place in...
Fire in Iraqi shopping center claim lives of sixty civilians
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN) A devastating fire swept through a shopping center in eastern Iraq on Thursday, leaving at least 61 people dead, according to the Interior Ministry. The incident occurred in the city of Kut, located in Wasit governorate, southeast of...
Blaze in Iraq Results in Casualties
MENAFN
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July 17, 2025
(MENAFN) Close to 50 individuals lost their lives or suffered injuries following a devastating blaze that erupted at a commercial complex in eastern Iraq on Thursday, as reported by local media outlets. According to an official news outlet, the...
Explosives-Laden Drone Strikes Devastate Key Iraqi Oil Fields
MENAFN
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July 16, 2025
(MENAFN) Early Wednesday, three oil fields in northern Iraq suffered drone attacks loaded with explosives, inflicting major damage to critical infrastructure while sparing human lives, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) confirmed. The KRG’s...
Explosives-Laden Drones Target Oil Field in Northern Iraq
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
(MENAFN) Two drones carrying explosives crashed Monday evening at the Khurmala oil field located in Erbil province within Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, local officials confirmed. The regional Directorate General of Counter Terrorism...
Iran Forges Stronger Ties with Pakistan, Iraq
MENAFN
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July 15, 2025
(MENAFN) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday held back-to-back meetings with the interior ministers of Pakistan and Iraq, focusing on enhancing bilateral relations and addressing key regional concerns amid heightened tensions with...
Iraq tries to assert state authority during crisis
Middle East Institute
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June 27, 2025
The Iraqi government has long navigated a path between maintaining political ties with its Iranian neighbor and Tehran’s allies inside Iraq on the one hand, and preserving its security relationship with the United States on the other....
Moscow criticizes US redo of ‘Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’ stunt
MENAFN
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July 14, 2025
(MENAFN) Russia has harshly criticized the United States for its recent air and missile strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, labeling the actions “irresponsible, provocative, and dangerous.” Moscow warned that such attacks risk dragging the Middle...
PKK Militants Disarm in Northern Iraq
MENAFN
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July 12, 2025
(MENAFN) A number of PKK militants surrendered and dismantled their weapons on Friday in the Sulaymaniyah province of northern Iraq. The militants convened in a cave located in the Surdas sub-region of Sulaymaniyah, emerged armed, and moved to a...