Baghdad: Iraq said around 16,000 of its citizens remain in Syria’s al-Hol camp, which houses families linked to ISIS.Ali Abdullah, an official at the National Security Advisory, said on Friday that ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof explains the various ways the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID will hurt the U.S.

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Officials said the termination of aid jeopardizes counter-terrorism efforts and weakens U.S. influence in countries that have ...

An UN spokesperson announced Tuesday that USAID funding cancellations have resulted in the closure of a UN human rights program intended on helping torture victims and the families of missing ...

Baghdad, Iraq — Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighboring Iran, a spokesperson for the US embassy in Baghdad said Sunday.

The United States has declined to renew a waiver that had allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran without running afoul of sanctions, a U.S. official said on Sunday (March 9, 2025). The previous ...

The US didn’t renew a waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from Iran, according to a foreign affairs adviser to the Iraqi prime minister. The decision was “regrettable,” Farhad ...

US Department of State did not renew the waiver. Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity and gas from neighbouring Iran, a spokesperson for the US ...

The decision 'ensures we do not allow Iran any degree of economic or financial relief' Iran supplies a third of the country's gas and electricity to Iraq. Illustrative image. Shutterstock ...

The US refused to renew a 120-day sanctions waiver for Iraq’s energy imports from Iran, raising the prospect of severe electricity shortages in coming months as demand increases with the rising ...