Shafaq News/ Iraq's President Abdullatif Rashid on Friday called his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to express solidarity in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 20 thousand in southern Turkey and northwestern Syria.

According to the Iraqi

Shafaq News / A security source reported on Friday that the US Embassy in Baghdad had activated the C-RAM defense system.

The Source told Shafaq News Agency that the embassy, located in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, activated the system as a part of a "security drill".

The

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Friday wrapped up a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, his bureau said in an official press release.

Al-Sudani, according to the press release, headed back to the Iraqi capital city, Baghdad, after holding a series of

Shafaq News/ On Thursday, the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs and the US secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, held a joint conference in Washington.

“It’s a great pleasure to have my longtime friend Fuad Hussein, the foreign minister of Iraq, here at the State Department in Washington.