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Iraq wedding fire caused by ‘gross negligence’, government investigation says

A fire that swept through a crowded wedding hall in a northern Iraqi town killing more than 100 people was blamed on “gross negligence” and lack of safety measures, the results of a government investigation into the disaster said, Reuters reports. The investigation results, announced at a news conference on Sunday by interior minister Abdul Amir al-Shammari, said the owner of the hall and three other staff members had allowed 900 people […]

2 October 2023

International

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

In the northwestern deserts of Saudi Arabia, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aqaba and the Sinai peninsula, a new city is being constructed, which, according to its creators, will be a vision of a "new future". Neom, the brainchild of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is a multilingual contraction of the Greek "neo" (new) and Arabic "mustaqbal" (future). Among the futuristic landmarks, the area will feature The Line, […]

23 July 2023

International

Iraq war pushed the country towards more crises than it can handle, experts say

Looking back on the twenty years since the US invaded Iraq, the war has had wide-ranging impacts on the region which are not going away any time soon. "[The war] unleashed sectarian tensions and violence, a fresh wave of militancy, and reshuffled regional politics in a dramatic fashion,” Mohanad Hage Ali said, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, said on Wednesday at a panel on the 20th […]

23 March 2023

International

US Senate committee votes to repeal Iraq war authorisation

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to advance a bill aimed at repealing the 2002 authorisation that greenlit the US invasion of Iraq. The committee on Wednesday approved the measure, led by Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Todd Young, with a 13-8 vote. It would repeal both the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), as well as the longer-standing 1991 AUMF. 'We need to put the Iraq War […]

10 March 2023

International

Water levels in Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers hit new lows

The water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq have decreased to unprecedented levels as Iraqi officials yesterday pledged to take measures to address the crisis. In the city of Nasiriyah, the centre of Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq, an AFP photographer said he was able to see the bed of the Euphrates River from its banks. Baghdad has repeatedly accused its neighbours Turkiye and Iran […]

27 February 2023

International

Two dead, dozens injured in stampede at Iraqi football stadium

At least two people have been killed and dozens injured in a stampede at a stadium in Basra, southern Iraq, ahead of the Arabian Gulf Cup final. The Iraqi interior ministry told Al Jazeera that two people had died and about 80 have been in injured in the stampede on Thursday. Hosts Iraq are set to face Oman in the final of the eight-nation Arabian Gulf Cup at 7pm (16:00 […]

19 January 2023

International

Germany in talks with Iraq for gas imports

Germany is in talks with Iraq about importing natural gas, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday, as Berlin steps up efforts to diversify energy sources away from Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine. "We also talked about possible gas deliveries to Germany and agreed to stay in close contact," Scholz said in a joint news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Berlin. The Iraqi leader said his country had […]

14 January 2023

International

Iran demands end to Kurdish attacks from Iraq

INTERNATIONAL Iran expects Iraq to prevent the northern Kurdistan region from being a launch pad for "terrorist" threats and attacks against Iranian territory, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Saturday. A statement issued by the Iranian Foreign Ministry explained that Abdollahian met Iraqi National Security Adviser Qassem Al-Araji and discussed bilateral relations and the situation in the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, Russia's Sputnik has reported. Abdollahian added that both Baghdad […]

17 October 2022

International

More than 6m unemployed in Iraq

The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) in Iraq raised the unemployment issue in the country, with the number of those unemployed growing annually, without any solutions. They stressed that the numbers reached 6 million unemployed individuals, amid calls for the government and the concerned authorities to take responsibility for the issue. The unemployment issue in Iraq is one of the most prominent files that have witnessed an escalation, especially […]

8 October 2022

Iraq

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