Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 699 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Thursday. 

The daily epidemiological report on the COVID-19 situation stated that eight deaths and 1,1289 recoveries were registered today.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 in Iraq, 2,311,238 patients have contracted the virus, 2,262,122 of whom

Shafaq News/ The Baghdad Municipality announced that the main street in Baghdad is marked with the name of Iraqi international architect "Zaha Hadid."

In a statement, the Municipality sad that the street linked the new Central Bank of Iraq building and Baghdad University Square in the Karrada district in the capital is now named "the Street of Zaha

Shafaq News / The Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Shakhwan Abdullah, revealed that the Parliament has received a list of 40 Presidential candidates.

Abdullah said in a statement that the Parliament will submit the candidates' names to the concerned authorities to check their status and files, noting that they will be publicly announced

Shafaq News/ Four demonstrators were handed a death sentence by al-Kout's criminal court after being convicted of killing a security officer in Wasit last year.

In June 2021, Captain Ali Abdul-Hasan Shayesh was killed in a hand grenade attack near al-Aziziyah power plant during a demonstration staged by the locals to protest power shortages.