Positive indicators from IMF Slight fall from last year Growth in farming sector Iraq expects its non-oil sector to grow by 4 percent in 2025 after increasing by 5 percent last year, the ...

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an in ...

The new government has pledged to unify Syria after overthrowing the Assad dictatorship. One of its biggest challenges is ...

Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer ...

The Forbidden Zone spans almost the entire length of the Iraqi border with Turkey and is up to 40km (25 miles) deep in places ...

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Baghdad (AFP) – Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Shiite Islam's highest authority in Iraq, offered his condolences on Monday for the death of Pope Francis, praising his work promoting "peace and ...

GRANGER, Ind.– When most people go to the grocery store with turkey on their shopping list, they don’t usually mean the live kind. Last Thursday in Granger, Indiana, officers with the St ...

A large-scale security operation has been launched in the Hamrin mountain range, northeast of Al Azim area in northeastern Iraq. Diyala Operations Command Commander Talib Al Musawi said that ...

In Iraq, Pope Francis was recalled as a courageous leader who worked to deepen inter-faith understanding. In Iraq, Pope Francis was recalled as a courageous leader who worked to deepen inter-faith ...

Turkey is in talks to look for oil and gas in Bulgaria, and is also planning exploration work in Iraq and Libya, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said. State-run Turkiye Petrolleri AO will ...

Istanbul (AFP) – Turkey has imposed a ban on elective Caesarian-section births at private healthcare facilities without a medical justification under new health ministry regulations published ...