A Grenade targets a researcher and religious thinker in Baghdad, no casualtiesA Grenade targets a researcher and religious thinker in Baghdad, no casualties

Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, unidentified men attacked the researcher and religious thinker Abbas Shams al-Din's house east of Baghdad.

A security source told Shafaq News agency that the men threw a local-made grenade at the house in the Ur neighborhood, east of Baghdad, causing only material damage.

A security force rushed to the scene to investigate

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-Theft of the century-: more than 5bn$ plundered from Iraqi state funds

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Parliamentary Integrity Committee, the country's official anti-corruption body, revealed, on Wednesday, new details about the "theft of the century" in which trillions of dinars were stolen from Iraq's tax authority.

Committee member Ahmed Al-Rubaie told Shafaq News agency that the Integrity Committee had formed an

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President Rashid receives UNAMI chief in BaghdadPresident Rashid receives UNAMI chief in Baghdad

Shafaq News / The President of the Republic, Abdullatif Jamal Rashid, met on Wednesday with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.

A statement by the Presidency of the Republic said that President Rashid received Plasschaert at the Baghdad Palace, where

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Al-Mandalawi discusses with Lebanon's ambassador reviving +20 dormant MoUsAl-Mandalawi discusses with Lebanon's ambassador reviving +20 dormant MoUs

Shafaq News/ The first deputy speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Muhsen al-Mandalawi, on Wednesday discussed with Lebanon's ambassador to Iraq, Adib al-Habhab, the resurrection of more than 20 memoranda of understanding (MoU) the two countries had signed but never saw the light.

In a meeting at his office in the Iraqi capital, al-Mandalawi called on

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Iraq promised to remove Anti-Tehran Kurdish parties: Iran's foreign ministryIraq promised to remove Anti-Tehran Kurdish parties: Iran's foreign ministry

Shafaq News/ Iraq has promised to remove anti-Tehran Kurdish parties from its territory, Iran's Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said in a press conference on Wednesday. 

Amir-Abdollahian said that a "foreign conspiracy" to instigate a civil war and ultimately divide Iran has failed. 

The Iranian foreign minister said that the western

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Iraqi parliament convenes tomorrow to discuss a bill on the national security agencyIraqi parliament convenes tomorrow to discuss a bill on the national security agency

Shafaq News/ Iraq's legislative body will convene a session tomorrow, Thursday, to discuss a set of bills, an official document showed on Wednesday.

The document shows that a bill on the national security agency is on the agenda of tomorrow's session.

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