Iraq’s Civil Defense Directorate has devised a plan to secure the pilgrims flooding into Iraq on the annual religious event of the Arbaeeen pilgrimage. In a statement to Alghadeer News, the Director-General of the Civil Defense, Brigadier Kadhem Salman Buhan, said, “this year’s early plan will be executed in cooperation …

Iraqi security forces apprehended a senior ISIS figure who served as a commander of the terrorist organization in Diyala. In a press release issued earlier today, Tuesday, Minister of Interior, Othman al-Ghanmi, said that the terrorist is wanted for multiple killings in al-Khuwayles village in Diyala in 2007. The terrorist …

Iraq recorded 5,988 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Tuesday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 58 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 7,517 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

Chancellor Angela Merkel made an impassioned plea to German voters on Tuesday to back a government led by conservative Armin Laschet in this month’s national election, saying their other option was a left-wing ruling coalition. After losing their lead in opinion polls to the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) last month, …

September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others appeared in court for the first time in more than 18 months as US military prosecutors seek justice two decades after the world-shaking terror attacks. On trial for nine years, Mohammed and co-conspirators Ammar al-Baluchi, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, …

The Taliban announced Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund as the leader of their new government in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also told a press conference that Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar will be the deputy leader. Sarajuddin Haqqani, son of the founder of the Haqqani network, designated as …

Four Americans left Afghanistan by land on Monday with Taliban knowledge in the first departures arranged by the US government since its military pullout, a US official said. The four US citizens left by land and were greeted by American diplomats, said a senior official, without specifying to which country …

Years of economic sanctions and political efforts from Washington have come to nothing, and work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is now nearing the final stages of completion, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. Speaking at a meeting in St. Petersburg on Monday, the veteran diplomat announced …

The ambassadors of the G7 group of advanced economies urged Tunisia’s president on Monday to appoint a new head of government as a matter of urgency and return to a constitutional order in which an elected parliament plays a significant role. The statement, put out by the British Embassy on …

At least 22,000 civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by US-led forces in a number of countries in Africa and West Asia over the past 20 years of the so-called ‘forever wars,’ a conflict monitor says. In a new approximation, the UK-based organization Airwars said at least 22,679 civilians, …

The Columbus statue was a frequent target of protesters denouncing European suppression of Mexico’s Indigenous civilisations. A statue of Christopher Columbus that was a prominent presence on Mexico City’s most iconic boulevard will be replaced by a statue honouring Indigenous women, the city’s mayor has announced. The 19th-century bronze statue …

Militants have hacked to death at least 30 people in a new massacre in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Locals and sources from the United Nations (UN) said on Monday that the militants armed with machetes, sticks and clubs had raided an area of Ituri …

The Taliban claimed victory on Monday in the last part of Afghanistan still holding out against their rule, declaring that the capture of the Panjshir valley completed their takeover of the country and they would unveil a new government soon. Pictures on social media showed Taliban members standing in front …

Britain plans to further extend post-Brexit grace periods on some goods imports to Northern Ireland, Brexit minister David Frost said on Monday, in a move designed to give London and Brussels more time for talks about trade with the province. The fate of British-ruled Northern Ireland was the most contentious …

The leaders of a military coup in Guinea promised on Monday to set up a transitional government of national unity after ousting President Alpha Conde and dissolving his cabinet. Sunday’s coup, in which Conde and other top politicians were detained or barred from traveling, is the third since April in …

Iraq recorded 5,650 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Monday. The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that 62 COVID-19 deaths were registered today. On the other hand, 7,480 patients achieved full recovery. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, …

On Monday, the European Union affirmed its commitment to support Iraq at all levels. The PM’s office said in a statement, “Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi received the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell and his accompanying delegation.” Al-Kadhimi indicated that Iraq greatly …

A young man wounded in Tunisia’s 2011 revolution has burned himself alive after the government failed to provide any compensation, his family told AFP on Monday. The self-immolation by 26-year-old Neji Hefiane recalls the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, the street seller whose suicide by fire on December 17, 2010 launched …

Top US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said that Washington may be “going back into Afghanistan” in the future, according to the BBC. “We’ll have to [go back to Afghanistan] because the [terror] threat will be so large,” he said in an interview with the BBC on HARDtalk. The Taliban …

New Zealand will mostly lift its Covid-19 lockdown this week, with only the country’s infection epicenter Auckland to remain under strict stay-at-home orders, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday About three million New Zealanders will no longer be under stay-at-home orders as of Tuesday overnight, and schools will reopen …