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Iraqi PM Confirms Progress on New Cities
Iraq Business News
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July 1, 2025
By John Lee. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani has confirmed that six new cities have been 'awarded for execution', with three more pending, as part of a broader plan to develop 60 new urban centres across the country. Speaking at a...
Iraq Opens Two Major Overpasses in Baghdad
Iraq Business News
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July 1, 2025
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani has opened two overpasses in the Tobji area of Baghdad's Karkh district, as part of the first phase of infrastructure works aimed at easing traffic congestion in the capital. The project,...
Iraq's golden opportunity: A new dawn for regional influence
Shafaq News
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Shafaq News In the wake of the 12-day confrontation between Israel and Iran, which ended in a regional ceasefire, Iraq stands at a delicate yet promising juncture. The temporary calm has sparked cautious optimism among Iraqi experts and officials,...
Iraqi security personnel hurt in rocket attack on Kirkuk base
GEO TV
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June 30, 2025
KIRKUK: Two Iraqi security personnel were slightly wounded when rockets hit the military section of Kirkuk airport late on Monday. Another rocket struck a house in the city, causing some damage. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack....
Iraq’s military spending tops $6B in 2025
Shafaq News
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2025-06-30T22:38:39+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad/Washington Iraq’s military spending in 2025 has surpassed $6 billion, according to newly released data by the US-based CEOWorld magazine. The report places Iraq’s...
New Vision Approved for Baghdad Metro Project Execution
Iraq Business News
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July 1, 2025
By John Lee. Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani has directed the completion of all procedural requirements for the Baghdad Metro project under a revised implementation framework. During a high-level meeting on Sunday with the Head of the Iraq...
Strengthening the US-Iraq Relationship through Energy and Security
Iraq Business News
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July 1, 2025
By Noam Raydan and Devorah Margolin, for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Redefining and Strengthening the U.S.-Iraq...
Iraq's top court to resume work after president retires amid controversy
The Goshen News - Indiana
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court was set to resume work Monday after nine judges who had tendered their resignations in recent weeks returned to work following the retirement of the court’s president and the appointment of a successor. Iraq’s...
Iraq’s top court to resume work after president retires amid controversy
Winnipeg Sun
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June 30, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Author of the article: Published Jun 30, 2025 • 2 minute read This is a locator map for Iraq with its capital, Baghdad. (AP Photo) AP Article content By Qassim Abdul-zahra Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not...
Rockets fired at Iraq airport, 2 wounded – security official
Inquirer
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July 1, 2025
This picture taken on September 5, 2023 shows an aerial view of the area surrounding Kirkuk Olympic Stadium in Iraq’s multi-ethnic northern city of Kirkuk, disputed between Iraqi Kurdistan and Baghdad. Thousands of people carrying flags of Iraqi...
2 injured after rockets fired at Iraq's Kirkuk airport, says security official
Hindustan Times
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June 30, 2025
Two rockets struck the military section of Kirkuk airport in northern Iraq late on Monday, slightly wounding two security personnel, a senior security official told AFP. The military sector of Kirkuk's airport includes bases for the Iraqi Army,...
Constitutional resolve: Barzani, French Ambassador tackle Baghdad-Erbil rift
Shafaq News
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2025-06-30T22:32:43+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News - Erbil On Monday, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani met with French Ambassador to Iraq Patrick Durel to discuss Iraqi-Kurdish relations, French investment...
Is The Baghdad Battery A Real Battery?
SlashGear
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June 30, 2025
When is a battery not a battery? When it's a Baghdad battery. Some "weird history" authors and armchair archaeologists have claimed that a group of artifacts discovered in 1938 were ancient "batteries." The artifacts in question were four ceramic...
World News | Iraq's Top Court to Resume Work After President Retires Amid Controversy
Latestly
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June 30, 2025
Baghdad, Jun 30 (AP) Iraq's top court was set to resume work Monday after nine judges who had tendered their resignations in recent weeks returned to work following the retirement of the court's president and the appointment of a successor. Iraq's...
In Iraq, restored tomb of biblical prophet Nahum quietly attracts Jewish pilgrimage
The Times of Israel
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June 30, 2025
A day after arriving in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Michigan rabbi Asher Lopatin woke up at 3 a.m. and set out across the dusty desert landscape for the small town of Alqosh, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) away. There,...
Iraq parliamentary elections: Campaigning begins October
Shafaq News
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2025-06-30T19:49:19+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News - Baghdad On Monday, Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced the official campaign period for candidates will begin in early October, confirming that...
2 rockets hit airbase area in N. Iraq
Xinhua News Agency
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BAGHDAD, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Two rockets hit an airbase area late on Monday in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk without causing casualties, the official Iraqi News Agency reported. The agency quoted a senior security source saying that two Katyusha...
Rocket attack targets Iraqi military airbase in Kirkuk, security sources say
Yahoo News
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KIRKUK (Reuters) -At least two Katyusha rockets landed inside an Iraqi military airbase in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, two security sources said. One person was wounded and no fatalities were reported, the sources added. (Reporting by...
Iraqi court sentences two to death over execution of top cleric Sadr
Press TV
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An Iraqi criminal court has sentenced two men to death for involvement in the execution of prominent Shia cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister during the brutal crackdown of former dictator Saddam Hussein on religious dissent. The Iraqi...
World Associated Press Iraq's top court to resume work after president retires amid controversy
Yahoo News
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court was set to resume work Monday after nine judges who had tendered their resignations in recent weeks returned to work following the retirement of the court’s president and the appointment of a successor. Iraq’s...