Asia Iraq The United Nations Development Program announced its intention to include the country in the Green Climate Fund, after four Iraqi dams have been damaged as they were linked to a disaster system
Asia Iraq The country - in extreme need for electricity - has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to connect through an electricity market in the region
Asia Iraq The foundations of a 12th-century prayer hall have been discovered under the Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul; the mosque, damaged during clashes with ISIS, is being reconstructed
Asia Iraq Several artists in the country are struggling to preserve the delicate art of Arabic calligraphy, hoping to push the government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan to take measures to consider calligraphy as an art and support professionals
Asia Iraq The Supreme Court has ratified the results of October's parliamentary elections; protests against the vote result had been allegedly staged by Iranian-backed factions
Asia Iraq Indicators for 2021 published by the Independent Human Rights Commission in Iraq revealed that there are about five million orphans, which is equivalent to 5% of the total number of orphans in the world
Asia Iraq Real non-oil GDP is expected to rebound by 12% as the economy recovers from last year's sharp contraction, helped by higher oil prices and the easing of containment measures
Asia Iraq The 1.400-year-old Arch of Ctesiphon, the world's largest brick arch located about 30 km south of Baghdad, is undergoing restoration work as part of efforts to bring back to former glory a number of historical sites
Asia Iraq The country has said it will "voluntarily" repatriate its citizens who are stranded on the Polish-Belarus border; the ministry says it has put together a list of more than 570 Iraqis willing to return, the first flight is scheduled for today
Asia Iraq The government has recently approved a plan to reduce cultivated areas by 50% next winter due to a severe drought that is forcing a restriction on irrigation
Asia Iraq Lake Milh, once a tourist attraction with thousands of visitors a day, is now severely polluted and the fauna is disappearing, due to drought and a decrease in the flow of the Euphrates for dams built in Turkey
Asia Iraq 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
Asia Iraq Hundreds of Iraqi protesters, including a significant number of women, marched in Baghdad a week before early elections; the first protests calling for such reforms broke out in 2019