Despite being scheduled to vote next year, elections were held yesterday in the country due to a strong popular uprising; airspace and land border crossings were closed and more than 250.000 security personnel were tasked with protecting the vote

Fortified exhibition halls have been allocated to store and display recovered antiquities, including artifacts previously stored at the Central Bank of Iraq or recently repatriated from abroad

Iraq has been elected vice-president of the Middle East Committee of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation during the 51st committee meeting

Chinese fast fashion app Shein has been relaunched in India five years after being banned from Delhi, thanks to a deal with Indian company Reliance Retail

Iraqis spend almost 3 billion Iraqi dinars ($2 million) every day on tobacco products, according to the Ministry of Health's National Tobacco Control Programme