The leopard which was given anesthetic before it was captured, is believed that fewer than 1,000 exist in the wild, with another 200 in captivity.

In a collaboration between the Mosul fine arts academy, a Belgian theatre company and UNESCO, 19 students are getting a chance to make their first short films.

Iraq's Ministry of Planning has said several positive economic indicators have risen during 2021 and several measures are being taken to activate the economy. Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, a spokesman for Iraq's Planning Ministry, said those who lost their jobs in 2020 returned to their jobs, which helped in the economic...

The ruling will allow parliament to meet and pave the way for the election of a president who will then appoint a prime minister tasked with forming a new government. The ratification follows a delay of more than two months since the October 10 legislative polls won by Shiite cleric...

Colorful fireworks lit up the sky during the festival organized by Baghdad municipality to inaugurate the renovated Al-Mutanabbi Street, which has long drawn bibliophiles.

The economy of Iraq depends upon oil as it constitutes 45 percent of the GDP and affects about 80 percent of the growth of the economy, contributing to 93 percent of the government’s revenues.

Louai al-Yasseri resigned from his leadership in Najaf, in central Iraq, a day after the governor of Nasiriyah province in the south quit following the violent suppression of protesters

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has said the UN will continue supporting Iraq for development and prosperity. Iraqi media reports said that Hennis-Plasschaert "extended our best wishes to the Iraqi people on the occasion of the New Year". She said, "The year...

Minister of Transport Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, and Minister of Transport of the Republic of Iraq Nasser Hussein Bandar Al Shibli, visited Doha Metro project where they were briefed on the operations of the metro stations, and also about the components of the project from officials at the Qatar...

The Iraqi government is trying to restore ancient artifacts from the Mosul museum.

School constructions across Iraq will take two years and three phases.

Poor or inadequate surveillance footage often contributed to deadly targeting failures.

The feat is said to have been achieved due to efforts from Iraq’s embassy in Moscow and ‘in coordination’ with Belarus.

The Iraqi fiscal year ends on December 31, 2021, and the effective financial management law begins from the first day of January 2022.

The United Nations says about one-third of Iraq's population lives in poverty, despite the country's oil wealth. The effects of low rainfall have been exacerbated as the levels of the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, drop because of upstream dams in neighboring Iran and Turkey.

The remaining coalition forces in Iraq will be present at the invitation of the government only to provide advice, assistance and empowering the Iraqi security forces.

A case filed by the Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary alliance contesting its defeat in Iraq's October 10 parliamentary election opened in a federal court on Monday.

Iran's Vice President for parliamentary affairs, Mohammad Hosseini said his country stood by Syrian people and government to the best of its ability to help preserve its territorial integrity.

The oil production in Majnoon Oil field will be increased to 450,000 barrels per day, said the Oil Minister of Iraq, Ihsan Abdul Jabbar Ismail.

At least four civilians were killed and four others wounded in Tuesday's motorcycle bombing near a hospital in central Basra. The office, who was amongst the deceased, worked for the intelligence, and was investigating targeted killings of activists.

In the northern Iraqi hamlet of Hassan-Jalad, almost every family has a story to tell about a time when a child, nephew or brother was lost to wartime munitions. Located near Mosul, a former stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, the area is littered with unexploded ordnance, sometimes...

UAE has risen to the top spot on Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking, dethroning Europe that has been dominating the top rungs of the Ranking for months. Bloomberg said the UAE has been one of the most consistent performers since the Ranking’s inception a year ago. Daily cases in the country...

A 3,500-year-old tablet featuring the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh has been returned to Iraq three decades after it was stolen and illegally imported to the US.

Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.

Twice a week, a small football pitch in Iraq offers the 25-member national squad of little people a chance to fulfill dreams and tackle prejudice.

Youth in Iraq get job through “wasta,” the system of “who you know” that has become Iraq’s pervasive scourge.

Iraq's Shiite Muslim firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr was Tuesday confirmed the biggest winner of last month's parliamentary election that had sparked charges of voter fraud from pro-Iranian factions. Sadr's movement won 73 out of the assembly's 329 seats, the election commission said.

Iraq’s general budget for 2022 will focus on implementing a set of investment projects in line with diversifying economy and achieving sustainability.

Governor of Central Bank of Iraq called on his Turkish counterpart, to "provide facilities to Iraqi banks in a way that facilitates the settlement of the trade balance between the two countries.”

Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus.

AD Ports Group and Turkey’s Turkiye Varlik Fonu signed a strategic partnership agreement to collaborate on major investment opportunities for port development and operations besides coordinating efforts to examine other logistics-related investment projects within Turkey. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations will also collaborate in establishing a...

Iraq's crude oil export revenues reached $7 billion in October, according to the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (Somo). Local media reports, which cited the Iraqi oil ministry's statement, said more than 96 million barrels of crude oil were exported in October. Of this, the quantity of crude oil exported from...

Construction of the arch began in AD 540 during the Persian Sassanid dynasty's long wars with the Byzantine Empire.

Syria is an important destination for Shiite pilgrims, and has continued to welcome visitors from Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon during the conflict. However, European tourists —a constant before fighting started in 2011 — have not been visiting for a decade.

Consumption of electrical energy is increasing by 10 percent annually in Iraq, which necessitates a robust distribution network, said the French company Schneider Electric. Schneider has signed an MoU with Iraq's Ministry of Electricity for the development of the electric power distribution network in the country, local media reports said....

Iraq is making efforts towards joining the World Trade Organization and its Minister of Trade will visit Geneva to discuss the issue. A government delegation will visit Geneva next week to reach an agreement with European trade ministers and European countries in this regard, Muhammad Hanoun, the spokesman for the...

The financial advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister, Madher Muhammad Salih, has stressed the need for beginning  a set of measures that encourage civil activity to invest and produce.

Around 400 Iraqi migrants have returned home after spending three weeks in freezing forest of Belarus, deep in debt but hopeful of reaching the European Union alive. They, however, still hope for a way out of Iraq in search of a better future.

The robots being used in the restaurant are imported but the installation, applications and their servers are managed by the University of Mosul.

An Iraqi court adjourned a hearing Sunday to allow a man to formalize his religious marriage to a 12-year-old girl, according to a lawyer for the girl's mother.

Iraq and Germany have said there was a need for moving quickly to stop the networks of human trafficking. Iraqi media reports said that foreign minister Fuad Hussain met with the German minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Burger, on the sidelines of the Regional Security Summit, The IISS...

A regional economic bloc must be formed and includes Iraq, Turkey and Iran to become a regional power that allows it to compete with economic groupings around the world, said Muhammad Hanoun, a spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce at the Iraqi-Turkish Business Forum for Investment and Contracting.

Iraq has attributed 'the victory over terrorism' to a comprehensive national strategy that it has adopted to deal with violent groups like ISIS.

Polish border guards said there were attempted crossings by two groups on what is the eastern border of the European Union and NATO -- one involving 500 migrants, some of whom threw rocks and tear gas canisters. The border guards said they had detained 45 migrants.

Influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the big winner in initial results from Iraq's election last month, on Thursday called on the "losers" not to disturb the war-scarred country's democratic process. Sadr, who campaigned as a nationalist and critic of Iran, was the big winner with more than 70 of the...

Iraq has summoned its cultural attache in Beirut for an investigation into the alleged sale of fake Lebanese university degrees to Iraqis, including MPs.

Iraq is expected to scale up its oil exports to 3.4 million barrels per day in the first quarter of 2022. Ihsan Abdul Jabbar, the Iraqi oil minister, was quoted by the Iraqi state news agency as saying.

The deals were signed at the Saudi Trade Finance Summit.

Thousands of migrants from the Middle East, including many from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, are camped out on the EU-Belarus border.

Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment.