Asia Iraq Iraq's official media regulator has ordered all media and social media companies operating in the state not to use the term "homosexuality" and instead say "sexual deviance"
Asia Iraq The country marked the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the siege of Sinjar by the Islamic State group on 3 August 2014, followed by atrocities and massacres against the country's Yazidi minority
Asia Iraq In a province bordering Saudi Arabia, a site has been found where captagon, the amphetamine-like stimulant that plagues the Middle East, is produced, a rare find in a country that has become a transit route for illicit drugs
Asia Iraq FAO has warned about the serious consequences of climate change and water shortages in the Mesopotamian marshes of southern Iraq
Asia Iraq Up to 4 million mangrove trees will be grown in the Khor Al-Zubair mudflats region; the joint project of government and UN agencies is inspired by successful mangrove forest rehabilitation activities in neighbouring Kuwait and the UAE
Asia Iraq Iraqi Airways has resumed flights between Iraq and Georgia after almost nine years of absence; flights will be weekly, with intention of increasing frequency
Asia Iraq The $236 million Al Qibla integrated project in Basra, involving the installation of a primary sanitary sewer system, storm sewer system, main sewer system with associated pumping station and road works has been successfully completed by Indian contractor
Asia Iraq For the final phase of the reconstruction of the historic Sumerian city of Ur, in the south of the country, damaged in the war, the country intends to offer opportunities to investors
Asia Iraq UN officials urged the country to push ahead with planned political and economic reforms, preserve women's rights and continue talks with Kuwait for compensation of Kuwaitis who disappeared in 1990 Iraqi invasion
Asia Iraq The first phase of the industrial city project in Dhi Qar governorate, covering an area of 200 square kilometres, has been declared almost completed
Asia Iraq Iraqi Kurdish woman Shylan Kamal is breaking down gender barriers in the country, after her passion for bodybuilding led her to fight for gender equality in her homeland
Asia Iraq Gas projects and an agreement with French energy giant TotalEnergies will make the country self-sufficient and an exporter of the natural resource within three to five years, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani said
Asia Iraq Iraq will restart crude oil exports from the Kurdistan region by the end of the week, the PM said