Shafaq News/ The first deputy speaker of Iraq's parliament, Muhsen al-Mandalawi, headed a delegation from the "Independent Iraq" parliamentary bloc visiting the headquarters of the Iraqi government in Baghdad earlier today, Monday.

Al-Mandalawi, according to a readout issued by his bureau, met with Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-sudani and

Shafaq News/ The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, said that climate change is the "biggest threat Iraq has ever faced," stressing that there is still hope to turn "things around."

Ghulam Mohammad Isaczai said, "when I traveled

Shafaq News/ A Scottish engineer who was held in an Iraqi prison facing extradition to Qatar over a bank debt has been released, according to a human rights charity that had been campaigning for his freedom.

Brian Glendinning, 43, who had been contracted to work at a BP oil refinery in Iraq, was arrested on an Interpol red notice at Baghdad airport

Shafaq News/ The Peshmerga forces managed to purge the territory between the Saladin governorate and the Kurdistan region from ISIS remnants, the commander of the Peshmerga's 17th brigade, Colonel Karim Saty, said on Monday.

"The Peshmerga forces carry out routine sweep operations in the areas previously infested by ISIS militants to hinder them