KARBALA, Iraq – The body of an eighth pilgrim was pulled from an Iraqi shrine on Monday, two days after its partial collapse in a landslide, with rescuers announcing an end to the search for more victims. Iraqi rescue workers search for survivors trapped under the rubble of the Qattarat...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Powerful Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr, whose bloc won the most seats in Iraq's elections last year, demanded Wednesday that parliament be dissolved and new national polls be called. This image grab taken from from Al-Iraqiya TV on August 3, 2022, shows Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr...
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Thousands of Iraqi protesters have occupied the parliament in Baghdad's Green Zone for the past five days, the latest political turmoil to strike the war-scarred country. Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, protesting against a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister,...
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Garbage clogs the banks of Iraq's Tigris River in Baghdad but an army of young volunteers is cleaning it, a rare environmental project in the war-battered country. With boots and gloves, they pick up soggy trash, water bottles, aluminium cans and muddy styrofoam boxes, part...
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother -- bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq's Kurdish region. The autonomous area, keen on projecting an image of a relative haven of stability and tolerance in...
ARBIL, Iraq – A dozen ballistic missiles targeted Iraq's northern city of Arbil, including US facilities, causing damage but no major casualties early on Sunday, security forces in the autonomous Kurdistan region said. A picture taken on March 13, 2022, shows a view of a damaged building...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday, Dec. 1 passed on third and final reading a bill that provides for the mandatory allocation of 15 percent of the annual Internal Revenue Allotment of local government units for health services, including the distribution of free medicines to their...
Only Filipino migrant workers who have existing employment contracts will be allowed to return to Iraq following the downgrade of the alert level there due to the improvements in the foreign land’s security situation. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "Hindi pa po pinapayagan ang mga new hires o...
The alert level 4 placed in the whole of Iraq for overseas Filipinos has been downgraded to level 3 following improvements in the foreign land's security situation, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday, Nov. 2. (Jansen Romero/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) From alert level 4, which...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh was returned to Iraq Thursday after being stolen three decades ago and illegally imported to the United States. The ancient Gilgamesh tablet Iraqi Cultural Minister Hassan Nazim accepted the tablet during a...
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the violence-free Kurdistan region of Iraq are appealing to the Philippine government to lower the alert level status and lift the deployment ban it imposed in January 2020 following violent protests outside the United States Embassy in Baghdad at that time....
Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT), International Container Terminal Services, Inc.’s (ICTSI) subsidiary at the Port of Umm Qasr, Iraq, recently handled its three millionth Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU), the only one to achieve the record in its locale. BGT 3M “Three million TEUs in seven years...
