•A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bombers A US KC‑135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, killing four crew members, the military said on Friday, adding that the incident was not caused by “hostile fire.” A second plane involved in the incident, which the military said occurred at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT) […]
•US and Iraq flags Iraq’s oil ministry announced today that it had invited US companies to bid on an oil field which had been operated by the now American-sanctioned Russian company Lukoil for years. The oil ministry said in a statement it had taken “all necessary measures to directly and exclusively invite several major American […]...
•A cleaning operation starts outside the charred building on July 17, 2025, after a fire tore through the newly opened Hyper Mall overnight A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said today as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. [&...
•Debris of a missile fired from Iran toward Israel Iran launched missiles at US military bases in Qatar and Iraq this evening, official media reported, in what state TV called a “powerful” response to recent American strikes on key nuclear sites. “The operation of Iranian missiles against American bases located in Qatar and in Iraq […]...
•A building damaged in Israeli strike on Tehran today Iraq filed a complaint today with the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s “violation of Iraqi airspace” in a major attack on Iran, Baghdad’s foreign ministry said. “These practices constitute a flagrant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty,” the ministry said, calling on “the Security ...
•Eniola Isaac Officials of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission in Jordan which oversees Iraq have intervened to return a 28-year-old trafficked Nigerian lady, Eniola Isaac. This was after a report on Wednesday revealed that Eniola was allegedly lured to Iraq under false promises of a better life, reports Channels TV. However, after being subj...
•Pope Francis Pope Francis escaped two attempts on his life during his historic trip to Iraq in March 2021, according to excerpts from his forthcoming autobiography published today by Italian media. The pontiff’s Vatican security detail received an urgent warning from the British secret services, Francis wrote. “A woman packed with explosives,...
At least 28 Pakistani pilgrims en route to Iraq for an Islamic religious ritual were killed as their bus crashed in central Iran, state media reported early today. “A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned and caught fire in front of Dehshir-Taft checkpoint in the central province of Yazd on Tuesday night,” state TV reported. “28 […...

