Asia Iraq The country, an OPEC producer, needs to push ahead with energy projects to reach the target of 35.000 megawatts to fully meet domestic needs and end its dependence on energy imports
Asia Iraq Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi called on their political rivals to make concessions and sit down at the dialogue table in an attempt to find a way out of the persistent stalemate
Asia Iraq The finance minister resigned over the country's worst political crisis in years, involving an influential Shia cleric and his Iran-aligned rivals
Asia Iraq The UN labour agency, the ILO, says it is increasingly concerned about working conditions in Iraq, where temperatures have reached 50 degrees Celsius in recent weeks
Asia Iraq Iran and Iraq announced plans to collaborate on a film project on ISIS that will depict a significant part of the two countries' fight against ISIS, based on historical facts
Asia Iraq Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslim supporters of al-Sadr gathered in Baghdad for mass Friday prayers
Asia Iraq Some 600.000 families displaced by ISIS have returned home since the group's defeat in late 2017 after security, public services and social benefits were restored, said the director general of the ministry's Directorate for Branch Affairs
Asia Iraq The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity has announced that, following the settlement of the country's energy debts to Iran, Baghdad is considering increasing gas imports from the Islamic Republic
Asia Iraq The lack of fodder due to poor rainfall and poor public investment has decimated the gazelles in the Sawa reserve; 40% of them disappeared between the end of April and the end of May, explains Turki al-Jayashi, director of the reserve
Asia Iraq Court sentenced a Daesh member to death for planning a 2021 bombing that killed 32 people in a Baghdad market, the city's first major suicide bombing in three years that ended a period of relative calm the jihadist group's declaration of defeat in 2017
Asia Iraq Two Chinese companies have been awarded a contract to build 8.000 schools in the country, as part of a historic oil-for-projects deal signed by the two countries three years ago
Asia Iraq Iraqi artist Wijdan al-Majed is transforming Baghdad's concrete walls into a city full of colour with murals depicting well-known figures
Asia Iraq Iraq's water resources have declined by 50% since last year due to successive droughts, low rainfall and falling river levels; the country is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change and desertification