Operations begin at Lucky Cement’s new clinker line in Iraq

Lucky Cement Limited announced on Wednesday that its new clinker line has started operations at Najmat Al-Samawah (NAS), located in Samawah, Iraq, on May 13. This was revealed by the company in a notice to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). In May, 2023, …

Iraq war veteran finds healing and peace through street photography

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - After serving in the Iraq War, JP Caffee came home in February 2006 and developed alcoholism and narcotic addiction. “I was given an ultimatum by, you know, people that I cared about then that, ‘Hey you either need to go to …

Turkey-Aligned Hackers Targeted Iraq-Based Kurds with Zero-Day Exploit

A cyber threat actor believed to align with Turkish government interests has been observed exploiting user accounts that have not applied fixes to a vulnerability (CVE-2025-27920) in Output Messenger, a multiplatform chat solution. The campaign was …

Iraq releases +19,000 inmates under amended Amnesty Law

2025-05-13T22:42:01+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced, on Tuesday, the release of more than 19,000 prisoners as part of the country’s amended General Amnesty Law. The announcement followed a …

Iraq takes helm of Arab Economic Council ahead of Baghdad Summit

2025-05-13T12:27:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News / Iraq officially assumed the presidency of the Arab Economic and Social Council on Tuesday, as regional ministers gathered in Baghdad in preparation for the upcoming Arab League …

In Iraq, audio leak puts embattled Sunni leader under fire

Iraq unemployment drops to 13.4%

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s Ministerial Council for Economy, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, convened on Monday (May 12, 2025) to discuss key economic initiatives, including the government’s poverty reduction …

UK special forces veterans accuse colleagues of war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan

Former UK special forces personnel have accused colleagues of committing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, including alleging that they executed civilians and a child. Graphic accounts of routine executions of handcuffed prisoners and the killings of …

Iraq’s IDB introduces Arab Tourist Card

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The International Development Bank (IDB) in Iraq announced on Saturday the launch of the ‘Arab Tourist Card’ in collaboration with the Visit Iraq platform, which would streamline financial transactions for Arab tourists visiting …

Output Messenger Zero-Day Exploited by Turkish Hackers for Iraq Spying 

A Turkey-affiliated threat actor has been observed exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Output Messenger against entities associated with the Kurdish military in Iraq, Microsoft reports. The hacking group, tracked as Marbled Dust, Sea Turtle, and UNC1326 …