Tag Archives: Iraq

 Thousands of pilgrims dressed in black made their way on foot towards a gold-domed shrine in northwestern Baghdad on Saturday, part of a weeklong procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, the great grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) the seventh Shia Imam. Most streets in the Iraqi capital …

 Iraq’s parliament on Monday indefinitely postponed a scheduled vote for the republic’s president after most major political blocs boycotted the session. The sweeping no-show deepens a political crisis in the war-scarred country which, almost four months after a general election, still hasn’t chosen a new prime minister. The assembly vote …

 The Friday Prayer Leader of the holy city of Najaf, Iraq, called on Saudi Arabia to release the Shia scholars the kingdom has put in jail. In his Friday Prayer Sermon yesterday, Hojjatul-Islam Seyyed Sadreddin Qabanchi said Saudi Arabia should release religious scholars and respect various schools of thought if …

The first phase of a hospital being built by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf will be inaugurated on Monday. The 220-bed hospital is being constructed with the cooperation of the Astan (custodianship) of Imam Ali’s (AS) holy shrine. The IRCS chief, Pir-Hossein Kolivand, …

The Leader of the Iraqi National Wisdom Movement stressed the need to take immediate action to fight poverty in Iraq. Ammar Al-Hakim said in a statement on the occasion of World Poverty Day: “Rising global statistics, which point to a dramatic rise in the poverty rate, especially after the spread …

– The Iraqi Electoral Commission has announced the final results of the country’s early parliamentary elections, according to which the Sadr faction came in first with more than 70 seats, and after that, the three Shias, Sunnis and Kurds factions have won more than 30 seats in the next parliament. …

The Iraqi Electoral Commission has announced the time for announcing the final results of the country’s early elections. “Emad Jamil,” a member of the Iraqi Electoral Commission’s information team, told a news conference today (Wednesday): The timing of the election results, the commission’s handling of the appeals, and the federal …

The general voting process in Iraq’s early parliamentary elections began this morning (Sunday) across the country. Iraqi Election Commission: Preliminary election results to be announced within 24 hours The head of Iraq’s Council of Electoral Commissioners announced the results of the country’s early parliamentary elections would be announced within the …