Asia Iraq Iraqi authorities recorded around 5.500 fire incidents across the country in the first five months of 2024, a 44% decrease from the 10.019 fires reported in the same period in 2023
Asia Iraq The country is grappling with an extreme heat wave that exceeds 50 degrees Celsius, causing serious health problems for the population and impacting on work, agriculture and production routines
Asia Iraq The authorities do not comply with national laws on public sector employment rights that require 5% of jobs for people with disabilities, leaving thousands of people jobless, Human Rights Watch said
Asia Iraq The Iraqi Drilling Company launched its largest rig, IDC 57, in the Majnoon oil field; the 3.000-horsepower rig is capable of drilling wells up to 8.500 metres deep
Asia Iraq Iraq has demanded that the UN assistance mission, established after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, ends its work by the end of 2025, saying it is no longer needed because Iraq has made significant progress towards stability
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
Asia Iraq Iraq's Oil Ministry blamed foreign oil companies for the delay in resuming crude oil exports through the ITP, saying the companies failed to submit contracts for review
Asia Iraq The country will complete its connection to Kuwait's power grid by the end of 2024 and begin receiving 500 megawatts of electricity, as part of a push to diversify energy sources that now heavily rely on Iran
Asia Iraq The Iraqi National Investment Commission has announced that it has received 17 proposals from foreign, Arab and local companies for a waste management and electricity generation project in Baghdad
Asia Iraq The advisor to Iraq's National Investment Commission revealed that the country plans to produce around 12.000 megawatts of solar energy by the end of 2030