8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (315+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Kurdistan Region security forces (Asayish) on Saturday said they arrested 22 Islamic State (ISIS) members, including a senior member, and seized “a large quantity” of weapons during a four-day operation in Sulaimani and Halabja provinces. Asayish…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq has completed the interrogation of over 5,700 Islamic State (ISIS) inmates transferred from Syria during clashes between Kurdish-led forces in Rojava (northeast Syria) and Damascus earlier this year, the Supreme Judicial Council said Tuesday. The…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (327+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraqi security forces apprehended the alleged perpetrator of a fatal shooting in Baghdad two days ago, Iraq’s Security Media Cell said Saturday, a day after the interior ministry announced the arrest of four suspects in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1050+ words) BAGHDAD, Iraq - The ongoing investigation into a drone manufacturing workshop seized in Baghdad last month has identified five commanders of Iran-backed Shiite armed factions as key customers of a drone supplier, Iraqi security officials told The New Region. An operation…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (304+ words) "The ministry is currently working to activate diplomatic procedures in cooperation with relevant authorities and to open channels of cooperation with Arab and foreign countries to which approximately 6,000 inmates belong,” ministry spokesperson Ahmed Laibi told the state-owned al-Sabah newspaper. ERBIL,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (299+ words) Korek Telecom has been embroiled in a legal dispute with the CMC since November 2023. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) on Thursday announced shutting down a number of centers belonging to Korek Telecom, as the…...