Iraqi Airways has resumed flights between Iraq and Georgia after almost nine years of absence; flights will be weekly, with intention of increasing frequency

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

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

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