Longtime Sunni politician and Iran critic was reportedly strangled in Beirut, sparking investigation.
Iraq’s Jewish community numbered about 150,000 in 1947. Between 1950 and 1952, around 125,000 Iraqi Jews were airlifted to Israel.
Technology
Drone strike disrupts electricity supply in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, renewing concerns about armed groups.
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More than 70 percent of northern Iraq's Kurdish region is without power after a drone struck the Khor Mor gas facility,
Science & Climate
Violent storms lash northern Iraq and parts of Iran, while Portugal faces strong winds and Japan braces for further snowfall
A political impasse between the KRG and PUK threatens to break up the semiautonomous northern region.
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The strike leaves more than 70 percent of northern Iraq's Kurdish region without power.
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Iraqi foreign minister tells Al Jazeera that Baghdad is investigating attacks on Gulf launched from its territory.
The ABC can reveal lethal infighting has erupted inside the crime ring largely responsible for Victoria's illegal tobacco extortions, firebombings and murders as Hamad's second-in-command goes "rogue".
Australia & Pacific
Iraq's armed forces have confirmed a Perth doctor who allegedly joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State group in Syria will be the first Australian to face trial and possible execution in the country.
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LED billboards in Egypt, Malaysia, Brazil, and possibly Iraq and China were hacked to show sexually explicit material. The group Leakers$ claimed responsibility for the attack and said that “anyone with two brain cells” could have done it. According to Gizmodo: > A representative said participants using the pseudonyms Never, 19ylegal, CH, and Nivex identified thousands of exposed systems through an automated random scan lasting roughly two hours. The systems were allegedly accessible via web pages and interfaces that lacked basic security protections.
The English writer visited Iraq multiple times in the first half of the 20th century and set some of her mystery novels there. The house in Baghdad where she once lived now sits abandoned and crumbling.
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Iran says the United States is "not serious" about negotiations as UKMTO reports a ship on fire off the coast of Iraq.
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE are financing competing data corridors through Syria, Iraq, and East Africa to bypass the two maritime choke points that threaten their digital connectivity.
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Two decades after country music blacklisted the band for their Iraq war protest, the trio celebrate their unapologetic album Taking the Long Way