Shafaq News / MP of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Shareef Suleiman, revealed today that the party is preparing to hold talks with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani.

Suleiman said that the three parties will discuss the Kurdish parties' share of the ministries of construction and

Shafaq News/ A blast from an explosion device has targeted a vehicle near the Shrine of Baku Aben Ali in Babel's city of al-Hillah, a source reported on Saturday.

It was not immediately clear whether the attack left any casualties, the source said.

Shafaq News/ The U.S. dollar (USD) exchange rate against the Iraqi dinar (IQD) climbed in the daily transactions in the markets of Baghdad and Erbil on Sunday.

Shafaq News Agency correspondent said that the Central al-Kifah and al-Harithiya exchanges are trading the USD at a rate of 147000 IQD to 100.

Our correspondent said that the selling and

Shafaq News/ Iraq finally has a new government. A little over a year since the parliamentary election and amid ongoing instability and violence, Mohammed al-Sudani – the preferred choice of the largest parliamentary bloc, the Shia Coordination Framework – was sworn in as prime minister last month, alongside 21 of 23 cabinet ministers. Sudani’s agen