WFP Iraq Country Brief, June 2025

In Numbers 4,574 People assisted USD 1.3 million cash-based transfers made USD 8.6 million six months (July - December 2025) net funding requirements Operational Updates General Food Assistance In June 2025, WFP concluded its food assistance to over 38,000 …

ERR in Iraq: Defense Forces returning from Estonia's largest military operation

Estonia is ending its largest military operation abroad and personnel will return home from Iraq in September. Troops told ERR during a visit to the base that they are ready to focus on defending Estonia. Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) announced …

3.0 magnitude earthquake recorded in Iraq’s Duhok Province

Ammon News - A light earthquake struck Duhok Province in northern Iraq early Sunday, according to a statement from the country’s Meteorological and Seismological Authority. The tremor, which measured 3.0 on the Richter scale, was recorded at dawn in the …

ISIL chieftain killed in drone attack in Iraq-Syria border

The Iraqi news agency "Maloma" quoted a security source as saying that one of the important leaders of the ISIS terrorist organization along with his deputy were killed during a drone attack in the border zone of Syria. According to this report, …

Post-Iraq celebration sees oil worker banned for drug driving

An oil worker has been banned from driving due to the way he celebrated after arriving home from a 10-week stint in Iraq. Elgin Sheriff Court heard that the police were contacted at 2pm on December 20 last year after a man was seen staggering as he got …

Turkish Airlines denies flight cancellations to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan

Feyli community calls on Iraq to act on genocide recognition

2025-07-19T20:46:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraqi lawmakers, activists, and Feyli Kurdish representatives convened in Baghdad on Saturday to demand urgent action to restore the long-denied rights of the Feyli community, …

Iraq shuts down over 1,100 unsafe projects

2025-07-19T21:57:10+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq’s Civil Defense Directorate shut down 1,118 projects across the country over a 48-hour period for violating safety regulations, the Interior Ministry announced Saturday. …

Death toll from Kut Shopping Center fire rises above 60; Iraq orders urgent investigation

Baghdad: The death toll from the fire that broke out in a shopping center in downtown Kut, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has risen to more than 60 fatalities. Brigadier General Miqdad Miri, Head of the Relations and Media Department at the Iraqi …

Tuberville on rescission package: ‘There’s no reason why one cent of American taxpayer dollars should go to Sesame ...

As the lengthy and sometimes hostile debate in the previous weeks surrounding President Donald Trump's so-called Big Beautiful Bill seems to be a distant memory, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is now turning his attention to Trump's …