Iraq

Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality,’ says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

By Agencies | 8 months ago

Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexua...

Iraq expels Sweden ambassador, embassy stormed over Quran burning

Iraq expels Sweden ambassador, embassy stormed over Quran burning

By Agencies | 9 months ago

Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador only hours after Iraqi protesters angered by the burning of copies of the Quran in Sweden stormed the Swedish...

Family of Kenyan woman in Iraq worried about her sudden silence

By Nyaboga Kiage | 2 years ago

A family in Mombasa is distressed after one of their kin who was working in Iraq went silent. Elizabeth Nakhone Obanda, 38, left Kenya on February 16,...

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Coronavirus: S.Korea raises alert to its ‘highest level’ as infections tripled

By AFP | 4 years ago

South Korea went on high alert Sunday following a sharp jump in coronavirus cases, and Italy and Iran took their own drastic containment steps as an e...

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Mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad

By AFP | 4 years ago

In the first hints of a possible retaliatory response, mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad on Saturday....

Forty people have been killed in a stampede as Iranians flocked to the burial of a top commander killed in a US drone strike, officials say. [PHOTO | FILE]

Two rockets hit Iraq base where US troops deployed

By AFP | 4 years ago

The security sources say the two missiles hit Iraqi capital's Green Zone....

Qasem Soleimani

Who is Qasem Soleimani?

By AFP | 4 years ago

Where once he kept to the shadows, Qasem Soleimani has become an unlikely celebrity in Iran -- replete with a huge following on Instagram....

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Top Iran general Qasem Soleimani killed in US strike on Baghdad

By BBC | 4 years ago

Qasem Soleimani, commander of the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was killed in a US strike in Baghdad....

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