Shafaq News/ Iraqi security forces reportedly shut down an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) near al-Rusafa prison, downtown Iraq's capital city Baghdad, on Monday.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that the Security Cordone Force of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior detected and downed a quadcopter flying over the Iraqi Correction Department.

"The UAV was

Shafaq News / Iraq's caretaker Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, demanded al-Hashd al-Shaabi authority (PMF) to reveal the fate of journalist Bassem al-Za'ak, who disappeared in October 2021.

A document issued by the office of MP Haidar al-Salami, addressed to PM al-Kadhimi said that the last time the journalist was seen is when he was covering

Shafaq News/ Iraqi security forces fended off an ISIS attack on a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Baqubah, Diyala's capital city, a source revealed on Monday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that a group of ISIS militants attacked a checkpoint near the village of al-Hashimiyyat, east of the Habhab sub-district, on Saturday evening.

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Shafaq News / The First Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Hakem al-Zameli, said that organized operations ars being carried out by influential oil companies and Mafias to smuggle oil outside Iraq.

Al-Zameli told Shafaq News agency that he had hosted the Energy Police Commander, Ghanem Mohammed, to discuss energy and oil smuggling.

He added