Washington, United States - The United States still hopes to hold talks Sunday with Iran, even after Israel launched a...
- Like the text blocked by Washington to protect its Israeli allies, the draft resolution before the General Assembly calls for...
Oil-rich Iraq, despite its mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is classified as one of the world's five countries most vulnerable...Iraq which shares the Tigris and Euphrates with Turkey and Syria often protests that their upstream construction of dams has endangered its water resources.
World has Bank warned that Iraq, a country of 41 million people, could suffer a 20-percent decline in drinking water resources by 2050 due to climate change.
- Eight people have been sentenced to death in Iraq, half of them over a 2020 car bombing in the city...
A criminal court in Anbar, a province in western Iraq, "sentenced four terrorists to death by hanging for setting off a car bomb in Ramadi"
Amnesty International said in a report last year that Iraq was the world's fourth leading executioner
President Vladimir Putin said the ‘liberation’ of Mariupol was a ‘success’ for Russian forces, but also ordered Defense Minister Sergei...Taking full control of Mariupol on the Azov Sea would be a major strategic victory for Russia
It will help Russia connect annexed Crimea to the territories of separatists in eastern Ukraine
- The National Oil Company (NOC) has this week declared a halt to operations at two major oil export terminals and...
The closure is a manifestation of playing out between the parallel administrations of Fathi Bashagha and Abdulhamid Dbeibah
The shutdowns in Libya further squeeze global supply and represent an additional source of upward pressure for prices.
The Turkish leader’s comments came a day after Iraq summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad to lodge a formal protest against...The Turkish leader’s comments came a day after Iraq summoned Turkey’s ambassador to Baghdad to lodge a formal protest against Erdogan’s latest military campaign
Turkey’s armed forces have reported the death of two soldiers and dozens of Kurdish militants since the launch Sunday of their third offensive in northern Iraq
Ukraine on Sunday vowed to fight to the end in Mariupol after a Russian ultimatum expired for remaining forces to...Ukrainian President described the situation in Mariupol as "inhuman" and called on Western allies to provide heavy weapons.
"The city still has not fallen," says Ukrainian Prime Minister adding that "Our military is still there and they will fight till the end".
Iraq on Tuesday summoned Turkey's ambassador to Baghdad in protest against the new Turkish offensive targeting rebels in the north's...Turkey has launched an air and ground offensive against militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq
Designated as a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies, the PKK has waged insurgency against the Turkey since 1984
- Faced with surging inflation that is hitting poor families especially hard, which has sparked unrest in some countries, policymakers should...
"We've seen already in some countries people protesting when they see the price of food or basic items increasing very rapidly," said IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas.
Governments can alleviate impact of the price jumps with "targeted measures to try to support vulnerable populations", he said.
Iran said Wednesday that "technical issues" in the now-paused negotiations to restore its 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers have...Iran is engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indirectly, to revive the 2015 deal
The US unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to step back from nuclear commitments
- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday barred far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir from entering Muslim areas of Jerusalem's Old...
Tensions in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem have spiked in recent weeks, amid nearly a month of deadly violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank
Ben Gvir had announced he would take part in a rally on Wednesday evening, saying he would march through the Damascus Gate
