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<!-- -->Culture Minister said he had not given permission to destroy the mosque's minaretThe demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq's southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged…

BAGHDAD: Iraq will start paying for its Iranian gas imports with oil, to circumvent the complicated mechanism agreed with Washington in order not to contravene US sanctions, the prime minister said on Tuesday (Jul 11). Iranian gas is…

Soon after a Chrisitan Iraqi man named Salwan Momika burned a Koran in front of Sweden’s largest mosque on June 28, 2023, it was reported that he was a member of a Swedish ultra-nationalist party. Then videos from Momika’s past…

An Israeli researcher missing for months in Iraq is being held by a Shiite militia, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Elizabeth Tsurkov, 36, a doctoral student at Princeton University, was kidnapped and held by the group…

Iraqi protesters breached Sweden’s embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Quran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world.A crowd of supporters of firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr stayed…

Iraqi protesters breached Sweden's embassy in Baghdad on Thursday, angered by a Koran burning outside a Stockholm mosque that sparked condemnation across the Muslim world. Issued on: 30/06/2023 - 00:23…

MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Thursday (Jun 29) it hoped that US President Joe Biden had meant to say Ukraine rather than Iraq when he made a verbal slip-up on Wednesday. Biden had said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "losing the…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Dozens of Iraqis gathered on Thursday in front of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad to protest at the burning of a Qur’an…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden slipped up twice in the last 24 hours by confusing the US war in Iraq with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to reporters Wednesday on the South Lawn of the White House, Biden said that Russian…

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