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September 10, 2024
The parent company of U.S. government-funded Arabic language broadcaster Al Hurra has cut 160 jobs and is merging its Iraq channel after a 20% budget cut mandated
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August 09, 2024Fahad Qassim was just 11 years old when Islamic State militants overran his Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq in August 2014, taking him
August 02, 2024
Heading for Turkey to the north and Iran to the east, hundreds of oil tankers snake each day from near Kurdistan's capital Erbil, clogging the Iraqi region's
July 11, 2024
A powerful Iraqi faction that led dozens of attacks against U.S. forces since October was pushed to announced a suspension of attacks through pressure from Tehran
January 31, 2024The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has revoked the operating licence of Iran's largest bank, Bank Melli Iran, citing international sanctions and the bank's limited
April 26, 2024
The Islamic State still poses a threat in Iraq and the U.S.-led military coalition's work with Iraq to fully defeat the group is not done, United States Ambassador
March 24, 2024
Talks between the United States and Iraq on ending the U.S.-led military coalition in the country may not be concluded until after U.S. presidential elections in
April 26, 2024
Iraq has banned eight local commercial banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, taking action to reduce fraud, money laundering and other illegal uses of
April 26, 2024
Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah (KH) militia, a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran, brushed off U.S. sanctions on the group over attacks against U.S. forces in
April 26, 2024
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