An air of uncertainty surrounds US President Donald Trump and potential American involvement in Israel's war against Iran. Concern is mounting across the region that US strikes on Iran would provoke retaliation and make American bases a target. While …
2025-06-20T20:37:32+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ A senior Iraqi lawmaker warned on Friday that a potential closure of the US Embassy in Baghdad could be a “precursor to an unprecedented security event” in Iraq or the wider region …
BEIRUT/BAGHDAD: Angry protesters on Friday took to the streets in Lebanon and Iraq to denounce Israel's ongoing military campaign on Iran. In the Lebanese capital Beirut, hundreds of supporters of the Hezbollah movement poured into the city's …
President Donald Trump bizarrely appeared to suggest that nuclear weapons didn't exist, or were at least considerably less advanced, at the time the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, in conversation with reporters on the tarmac in New Jersey on …
2025-06-20T22:28:11+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ Iraqi officials and aviation sources warned that the full closure of Iraqi airspace since June 13, amid the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel, is costing the country …
2025-06-20T22:21:58+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ The US Department of Defense confirmed on Friday that it has deployed additional military assets to the Middle East as tensions escalate over the Israel–Iran conflict and threats …
"It's amazing to see people living the Christian faith -- and especially when they don't have to." That's what Chaldean Paul Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko of Alqosh in Iraq told me during an interview two years ago. A soft-spoken man, …
Members of the Muslim community protested against Israel after Friday prayers in the old city area. The protest outside Asafi Imambara was led by Maulana Kalbe Jawad, who extended support to Iran and stated that Israel had been committing atrocities in …
Image credits: Aaron Schmidt. Beneath layers of earth in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh, a team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has uncovered one of the most significant finds in decades in the region. The colossal stone slab is five …
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