Shafaq News/ The chair of Basra's Organization for Iraqi fisherpersons, Badran al-Tamimi, refuted the media reports about al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) dispatching a force to protect the Iraqi fisherpersons working in the regional waters Iraq shares with Kuwait.

"A PMF security delegation visited yesterday the fish auction

Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 135 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Friday.

In its daily epidemiological report, the Ministry registered 243 recovery cases and two mortalities.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 cases since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2,324,982 of whom 2,297,546 recovered

Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell responded to footage that ISIS terrorist organization published on its website.

The Cell said in a statement that ISIS published footage claiming that it shows a checkpoint for the terrorist organization, set on April 28, on the international highway west of al-Anbar.

It noted that the footage was taken in 2017

Shafaq News/ Independent lawmaker Bassem Khashan on Friday ascribed Mustafa al-Kadhimi's government as "one of the most corrupt governments since 2003".

In a post he shared on Facebook, Khashan said, "the Chinese agreement does well in the large projects the government cannot complete. It is implemented by the Chinese companies themselves. The