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Former Salah al-Din governor sentenced in absentia over illicit enrichment
12+ hour, 11+ min ago (188+ words) Former Salah Al-Din Governor Ammar Jabr SALAH AL-DIN — Former Salah al-Din Gov. Ammar Jabr has been sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison for illicit enrichment and ordered to return 1.728 billion dinars, about $1.3 million, the Federal Commission of Integrity…...
Hakim backs corruption drive but urges dialogue on weapons
12+ hour ago (361+ words) 964media BAGHDAD â Ammar al-Hakim urged the government on Saturday to press on with its anti-corruption campaign and go after "the big cases," while arguing that the separate effort to bring weapons under state control should be settled by dialogue rather…...
Fire destroys medicine store at Basra teaching hospital
12+ hour, 30+ min ago (226+ words) Firefighters battle a blaze at a medicine storage facility inside Al-Fayhaa Teaching Hospital in Basra on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2026. BASRA — A fire tore through the medicine warehouse at al-Fayhaa Teaching Hospital in central Basra on Sunday, burning its contents, with 25 firefighting…...
Second faction leader turns focus to US control of Iraq’s oil money
13+ hour, 37+ min ago (315+ words) 964media BAGHDAD â The head of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada attacked what he called American economic domination of Iraq on Sunday, the second leader of a faction refusing to disarm to make the country's financial arrangements with Washington a target within days…...
Ministers, MPs and security agencies used Starlink before it was licensed, minister says
18+ hour, 5+ min ago (361+ words) 964media BAGHDAD â Iraq's national security service, its intelligence agency, government ministers and members of parliament were all subscribing to Starlink while the service was operating illegally in the country, the communications minister said, with 42,000 unlicensed terminals in use The commission…...
Much of Iraq’s medical waste escapes treatment, observatory says
15+ hour, 35+ min ago (222+ words) Burning waste at an open landfill BAGHDAD — Iraq produces an estimated 20 to 40 tonnes of hazardous medical waste a day while only 400 to 500 tonnes a month are officially treated and destroyed, the Iraq Green Observatory said, warning that the rest is…...
Basra forecast to hit 51°C on Monday before temperatures ease
17+ hour, 14+ min ago (126+ words) 964media BAGHDAD — Maysan, Basra and Dhi Qar reached 50°C on Sunday, and Basra is forecast to climb to 51°C on Monday before a slight cooling begins on Tuesday, the Iraqi Meteorological Organization and Seismology said. Maysan and Dhi Qar are expected…...
Entities outside the PMF Commission will be handled by negotiation, spox says
19+ hour, 39+ min ago (265+ words) 964media BAGHDAD â Iraq will not accept armed forces operating in parallel with official institutions after Sept 30, Security Media Cell chief Lt Saad Maan said, adding that any group falling outside the Popular Mobilization Forces Commission would be dealt with "through…...
Rare blind fish prompt environmental survey in Anbar’s Haditha
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (239+ words) 964media ANBAR â Environment officials have surveyed a cave system at Khasfa, near Haditha, to establish whether rare blind fish still live in its underground waters, after environmental police filmed the fish and the waterway inside the cave The Anbar Environment…...
Six years on, calls for justice renewed over killing of two Basra activists
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (257+ words) 964media BASRA â Activists and residents in Basra marked six years since the killings of Tahseen Osama and Reham Yaqoub on Friday, saying nobody has been identified over one death and nobody tried over the other "Six years have passed since…...