Shafaq News / The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, praised the role of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF), along with the Peshmerga and security forces, in the war against ISIS.

Barzani said in a tweet on the anniversary of the issuance of influential Iranian-Iraqi Shia Marja' Ali Sistani's Fatwa to form the PMF, "On the anniversary of

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi will be heading on Sunday to the Jordanian capital, Amman, flanked by a high level parliamentary delegation. 

According to a press release by his bureau, the visit comes "in response to an official invitation from the Speaker of the Jordanian House of Representatives, Mr. Abdul Karim

Shafaq News/ The resigned Sadrist lawmakers will be replaced by the candidates who came second in the respective constituencies in the October 10 election, a source from inside the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Sunday. 

In an unorthodox maneuver, the Lawmakers of the Sadrist bloc in Iraq's parliament resigned on Sunday after

Shafaq News/ The head of the Sunni al-Siyada bloc, Khamis al-Khanjar, on Sunday said he received a phone call from the Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr prior to the latter's unexpected decision to pull out the representatives of his movement from the legislative assembly.

Al-Sadr held a similar phone call with the Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani