Asia Iraq A 2700-year-old sculpture of the winged deity Lamassu was unearthed in a recent excavation in northern Iraq; the sculpture, weighing 18 tonnes and measures 3,8 by 3,9 metres, is made of alabaster
Asia Iraq Thousands of civil servants demonstrated in Baghdad and the southern Iraqi provinces of Basra and Diwaniyah, demanding a revision of the pay scale and an update of government salaries
Asia Iraq The killing of Iraqi TikTok influencer Om Fahad, shot dead in his car in Baghdad, is being investigated by the Ministry of the Interior; she had been imprisoned last year during an Iraqi government Internet clean-up campaign for offence to public decency
Asia Iraq The consulate of the Netherlands in Erbil has been closed - and so is the embassy to Tehran - amid growing concerns of potential escalation in the Middle East
Asia Iraq The new medical city in Nasiriyah, in the southern governorate of Dhi Qar, which will be Iraq's second hospital, will be planned and designed by a Greek company on an area of 330.000 square meters