OSLO, NORWAY – An Iraqi refugee in Sweden who stoked international outrage by repeatedly desecrating the Quran last year has been arrested in Norway and now faces deportation back to Sweden, according to court documents viewed by AFP on Thursday. Salwan Momika, a Christian Iraqi who burned Qurans at a slew...
Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi inherits a cost-of-living crisis
Britain's new finance minister, Iraqi-born Nadhim Zahawi, has inherited a cost-of-living crisis that risks pushing the UK economy into recession. The former education minister was parachuted into the Treasury late Tuesday after predecessor Rishi Sunak's shock resignation over the culture of scandal plaguing Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson also lost...800 Iraqi refugees return home from Syria, more to follow
Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow, a Syrian official in the region's Kurdish semi-autonomous administration said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the first group left on buses via the Al-Yarubiyah border crossing. The Iraqi government has "agreed...Qatar Red Crescent Society project in Kurdistan benefits thousands
QRCS Warm Winter campaign this year aims at meeting the food and winterization needs of around 42,040 families.
Iraq holds funeral for Yazidi mass grave victims of IS
After Iraqi authorities declared victory over the jihadists in 2017, scores of mass graves were discovered across the country, including in the Sinjar town of Kojo.
UK apology over Gulf War ‘human shields’ flight
Passengers on BA flight 149 were taken off the Kuala Lumpur-bound plane when it landed in the Gulf state on 2 Aug. 1990, hours after Saddam Hussein's troops swept in.
