Asia Iraq The Governorate of Kirkuk in Iraq announced the decision to once again use Turkish as the language of official correspondence
Asia Iraq The country has begun relocating Iranian Kurdish groups from the Iraqi Kurdish region bordering Iran to camps far from the border, as part of a security agreement between Baghdad and Tehran signed in March
Asia Iraq The Iraqi Oil Ministry has received approval from the Ministerial Council of Energy for a final agreement with ExxonMobil
Asia Iraq National Data Center at the General Secretariat of the Cabinet was inaugurated by Prime Minister, a significant step in the country's digital evolution
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