IMF cuts Iraq Growth Forecast for 2025

By John Lee. According to the latest World Economic Outlook from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Iraq's economy is forecast to shrink by 1.5 percent this year. This is a reduction from the 4.1 percent growth forecast in their October 2024 report …

Iraq’s Path to Energy Security is Taking Shape

Iraq is moving to achieve energy security by diversifying its energy sources and reducing reliance on imports of Iranian electricity and natural gas. A warning that expeditious action is needed was the removal of the U.S. sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq …

Iraq's top court delays ruling on maritime deal with Kuwait

The Khor Abdullah waterway, Iraq's only vital maritime artery to the Gulf, lies at the center of a high-stakes legal and political dispute. [Getty] Iraq's Federal Supreme Court has delayed its decision on whether to reinstate the annulled Khor …

Iraq farmers turn to groundwater to boost desert yield

Farmer Hadi Saheb cannot wait to see his wheat fields flourish in the heart of the desert after he tapped into groundwater reserves in water-starved Iraq. He is just one of many Iraqis who have turned to drilling wells in the desert to help sustain the …

South Korea seeks growing arms deals with Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – With negotiations to provide more military equipment, such as fighter jets, helicopters, and air defense systems, South Korea is stepping up its attempts to increase its military sales to Iraq. The Defense Acquisition Program …

Fired Up Pizzas: Aberdeenshire food truck inspired by owner’s Iraq tour

Pizza has the power to get you through a bad day, or, as Jo Wilson of Fired up Pizzas in Aberdeenshire says, cheer up the army on a tour in Iraq. Jo worked in the British Army for 22 years as AGC (SPS) or adjutants general corps (staff and personnel …

Iraq, Jordan focus on bilateral ties and regional issues

2025-04-24T20:06:41+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News/ On Thursday, Jordanian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Al-Safadi met with both Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, discussing regional …

Iraq’s clean energy projects to generate 12,000 megawatts

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul-Ghani, confirmed on Thursday that Iraq’s renewable energy projects are planned to generate 12,000 megawatts. Abdul-Ghani’s remarks took place during his participation in the international …

JJ’s Star Spangled Salute: A Kansas Veteran On The Frontlines In Iraq

Slain Israeli hostage's story brings Iraq's Nazi-inspired pogrom into public memory

About two weeks after their father was taken hostage by Hamas militants on October 7, Shlomo Mantzur's children cleared out his home in Kissufim. There, they found a diary he had penned about six months prior, in which he had detailed an event he …