Shafaq News/ Iraq logged only 411 COVID-19 cases in the past seven days, the Ministry of Health revealed.

In its weekly epidemiological report on COVID-19, the Ministry reported 597 recoveries and three mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 patients since the emergence of the

Shafaq News/ Three members of an Islamist extremist group were reportedly killed in an airstrike near the Hemrin lake in Diyala on Monday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the Iraqi warplanes carried airstrikes on sites used by the terrorists as hideouts near the lake.

"The initial

Shafaq News/ Iraq's minister of interior, Abdul-Amir al-Shammari, arrived in Kurdistan's capital city, Erbil, on a snap visit on Monday, a source in the federal government revealed.

Al-Shammari and his accompanying delegation were welcomed by the region's interior minister, Rebar Ahmed,

Shafaq News/ Iraq's new Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani received the Chaldean Patriarch in Iraq and the world Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako and his accompanying delegation in Baghdad on Monday.

According to a readout issued by his office, the prime minister praised the peaceful