Why has Iraq decided to ban online map service Waze?
Iraq plans to ban Waze, citing Israeli origins, and suggests alternatives like Google Maps or local app in development.
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Iraq plans to ban Waze, citing Israeli origins, and suggests alternatives like Google Maps or local app in development.
The US has ended its military mission in Iraq, a move analysts said could give Baghdad more room for diversified partnerships and indirectly benefit China’s energy and commercial interests. But they cautioned that the shift was unlikely to create a power vacuum for Beijing to fill, with China lacking both the ambition and capacity to take on the US security role. The United States formally ended its Operation Inherent Resolve mission in Iraq on September 30, completing a withdrawal agreed on in...
Iraq’s state tanker company arranged a very large crude carrier to transport 2 million barrels beyond the Strait of Hormuz, marking a move toward offering oil outside the Persian Gulf.
Mahan Air is excluded from the agreement as Baghdad says Washington granted its request for a waiver.
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Bamo Nouri, investigative journalist and also Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of International Politics at City Saint George's University of London. He sees the end of the American military presence in Iraq as a profound shift in the balance of power inside the country. For him, the central question is not whether Iraq has formally regained sovereignty, but whether it possesses the political cohesion, security capacity and economic independence necessary to exercise that sovereignty. America is leaving Iraq, but Iran is not. Tehran's influence is already embedded within Iraq's political parties, armed groups, economic networks and financial system, meaning that its power does not depend on a conventional military presence. Removing the American counterweight now could give Iran-backed groups greater room to operate, while leaving Iraq's Kurdish region, which has relied heavily on American military, intelligence and air-defence support, facing its own strategic uncertainty. Ultimately, the withdrawal will potentially intensify Iran's role in Iraq while making Iraq's attempts at political and economic reform considerably more difficult.
Peshmerga unification seeks stability, overcoming party disputes to build a national force in Iraq's Kurdish landscape.
Night time celebrations filled the air as Iraqis observed the start of a four-day holiday.
The withdrawal ends two decades of foreign intervention in Iraq as part of 'global war on terror' and anti-ISIL fight.
Iraq marks US troop withdrawal with 'Sovereignty Days', symbolising a shift after decades of foreign military presence.
Iraq’s security forces held parades in Baghdad and Najaf to celebrate ‘Sovereignty Day’ as US troops withdraw.
The US military announced on Wednesday that it has completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight the Islamic State group. The last US troops left an air base in northern Iraq under a deal between Baghdad and Washington.
A US-led coalition deployed in Iraq more than a decade ago to fight jihadists concluded its mission on Wednesday, a move celebrated by the country's leaders, but which some fear will embolden pro-Iran armed factions. France 24's Angela Diffley takes a look at the security challenges facing the country and why the US has chosen this moment to take its troops out.
Iraq’s state oil marketer offered buyers contractual crude supplies for October at discounts of as much as $37 a barrel to regional benchmarks, according to a document obtained by Bloomberg.
A US-led coalition deployed in Iraq more than a decade ago to fight jihadists concluded its mission on Wednesday, a move celebrated by the country’s leaders, but which some fear will embolden pro-Iran armed factions. Coalition troops deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to fight Islamic State, which had seized large swathes of territory, committing massacres and forcing thousands of women and children into slavery. The group was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019, but coalition forces...
Iraq marks national 'Sovereignty Days' as US troops depart, but must navigate risks of new security landscape.
More than two decades of US military presence in Iraq comes to an end.
US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war. Iraqi security experts say the withdrawal – agreed in 2024 under President Joe Biden and carried out by Donald Trump’s administration even as it wages war against Iran – could give Tehran and its powerful allies free rein, while also allowing other US enemies...
Tehran filed a UN complaint against US sanctions forcing regional cancellations of Iran flights.
US President Donald Trump’s administration was set to grant a limited waiver to its Iran sanctions programme on Monday to allow for flights carrying Shiite Muslim religious pilgrims between Iran and Iraq, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. The source, who is involved in the deliberations, said the US Treasury Department waiver would allow Iraqi Airways to fly back and forth between Iran and the Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq for one month, with a more permanent waiver...
Disrupted oil exports, costlier imports, and a weaker dinar expose Iraq's economic dependence on oil, foreign goods.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falih Al-Zaidi called for a sovereign state of Palestine at the 81st session of the UNGA.
US secretary of state's warning comes after he and Trump met the Iraqi PM on the sidelines of the UNGA.
Iraqi Prime Minister al-Zaidi and Turkish President Erdogan pledged deeper security cooperation at UNGA.
Turkey will gradually hand over control of its Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq to Baghdad, Ankara and Baghdad said Wednesday, in a move aimed at strengthening Iraqi state authority and easing a long-running source of tension between the neighbours.
Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long US military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups.