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Muslim nations condemn Denmark Quran burning Muslim nations have condemned the burning of a Quran on Monday by a far-right group called “Danish Patriots” outside…

A secret UK intelligence report provided personality sketches of Saddam’s generals before the Gulf War.

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed rock carvings that are around 2,700 years old.

Arab News says Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators, most of them followers of the Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, have stormed the parliament building in Baghdad.

Arab News says Iraqi authorities said at least nine civilians died in a Turkish artillery attack on Wednesday that hit a village in the Kurdistan autonomous region.

Arab News says 2 IRAQI UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS were gunned down in the Kurdish regional capital Irbil on Tuesday prompting the arrest of a disgruntled former student, authorities said.

The Metro says George W Bush accidentally called the Iraq invasion ‘brutal’ and ‘unjustified’ in a very unfortunate ‘Freudian slip’.

The Independent says a retired British geologist accused of smuggling historic items out of Iraq who is facing the death penalty has said he did not know he had broken the law.

Arab News says Eight hundred Iraqi refugees returned home from northeast Syria on Thursday and hundreds more are to follow.

Arab News says a surprise ruling by Iraq’s high court cast doubt on the legal foundations of the independent oil policy of Iraq’s Kurdish-run region.

Crude oil price rose for a fourth day on Wednesday as an outage on a pipeline from Iraq to Turkey increased concerns about an already tight supply.

RT News says several rockets hit Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone hosting the US-led military coalition’s facilities as well as the US embassy.

Arab News says Saudi Arabia joined a torrent of global condemnation on Sunday after an attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi.

Two rockets were fired early Thursday against Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone which houses the US embassy, without causing any casualties or damage, an Iraqi security source told AFP.

Iraq has arrested the suspected killer of a prominent rights activist’s son, whose bullet-riddled body was found in the southern city of Basra at the weekend, authorities said Tuesday.

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said.

More than 100 individuals were also injured, according to two health officials, in the fire that destroyed the coronavirus unit of al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah on Monday.

Iraq’s oil minister stated on Saturday that he expects oil costs to vary between $68 and $75 per barrel in the course of the second…

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The Middle East has many reasons to fear the coronavirus pandemic, but it has one big advantage when it comes to resisting it. Most people…