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Thousands gather in Iraq's Kurdish region to celebrate Nowruz festival

Celebrations filled Iraq’s Kurdish region on Thursday as people gathered to mark Nowruz, the festival that welcomes spring and the start of a new year.

Euronews

4,000-year-old tablets found in Iraq reveal ancient red tape

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

Euronews

Trump Claims Iraq's 'Fugitive Leader' Was 'Relentlessly Hunted Down' and Killed

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post shared Friday evening that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was killed.

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‘Spreadsheets of empire’: red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists after Iraq finds

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

The Guardian - UK

How Pete Hegseth is pushing his beliefs on US agency: ‘nothing to prepare forces’

As defense secretary shifts focus to culture war, some fear he is neglecting ‘future of warfare’ for US military

The Guardian - US

Senior Islamic State leader killed in US-Iraq joint operation

US President Donald Trump on Saturday informed that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, along with another unidentified member of the ISIS, was killed in US-led operation. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraqi prime minister says

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “one of the most…

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Iraq Says Seeking Alternatives To Iran Gas

Iraq is exploring alternatives to Iranian gas imports, including options in the Gulf, a government official said, as it seeks to reduce dependence on its sanctions-hit neighbour.

International Business Times

Disabled ex-Army doctor left without heating and hot water in West London housing association flat

Terry Cyrille, who served in Iraq as a combat medic, has battled life-threatening cancer and other severe illnesses

Evening Standard

Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up

Public sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than a decade. Many of these people are owed staggering amounts of money – US$50,000 (£38,700) on average, and as much as US$120,000 for higher-level employees.

The Conversation

Syria’s leader signs deal to integrate Kurdish forces into new regime

Agreement with US-backed group puts all border crossings with Iraq and Turkey, airports and oil fields in northeast Syria under new regime’s control

The Independent UK

US ends sanctions waiver for Iraq to buy electricity from Iran

Iraq faces worsening power shortages after the US cuts waivers tied to Iranian gas and electricity imports.

Al Jazeera

Syria's neighboring foreign ministers call for lifting sanctions and reconciliation

Syria’s top diplomat and his counterparts from neighboring countries have called for the lifting of Western-led sanctions and post-war reconciliation

The Independent UK

US Ends Waiver For Iraq To Buy Iranian Electricity

Washington has declined to renew a sanctions waiver that allowed Iraq to buy electricity from neighbouring Iran, a spokesperson for the American embassy in Baghdad said on Sunday.

International Business Times

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The Folly of Realism review: Alexander Vindman on how US got Russia wrong

The former NSC official who sparked Trump’s first impeachment says successive administrations have bought into Moscow’s vision of itself

LiveScience

Massive Mesopotamian canal network unearthed in Iraq

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The Conversation

Britain can still be a bridge between the US and Europe – here’s how Starmer can prove it

The US-EU relationship is at its most fragile point since the build-up to the Iraq war in 2003. While President Donald Trump openly questions Nato and President Volodymyr Zelensky’s desire for peace, EU leaders have continued to voice their unequivocal support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.

The Independent UK

Trump accused of ‘insulting’ UK by claiming Britain would not come to America’s aid

US President’s comments compared to those of his deputy JD Vance, who has been slammed for disrespecting British veterans

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The National (Scotland)

John Swinney 'pushed SNP to back Iraq war', party grandee claims

JOHN Swinney pushed the SNP to come out in support of the Iraq war during his first tenure as leader, a former Scottish Cabinet secretary has said…

The Independent UK

Churchill’s grandson says Trump team ‘despises Europe’ and UK-US special relationship ‘not what it was’

Nicholas Soames paints grim picture of fluctuating transatlantic relationship as former ambassador to Washington also criticises Trump administration

The Independent UK

Starmer praises sacrifice of British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in oblique rebuke to Vance

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has praised the “sacrifice” of British troops who were killed fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Independent UK

Starmer tribute to fallen British troops after Vance’s perceived slight

Sir Keir Starmer’s tribute to personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan came after JD Vance’s comments about troops from a ‘random country’.

The Independent UK

Video: Keir Starmer makes dig at JD Vance in tribute to British soldiers after controversial war comments

Sir Keir Starmer opened Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 5 March — his first since Donald Trump’s explosive meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky — with a dig at JD Vance by paying tribute to the hundreds of British soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Independent UK

Starmer delivers powerful rebuke to JD Vance with tribute to Britons killed in Iraq and Afghanistan wars

JD Vance appeared to describe Britain as ‘some random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years’

The National (Scotland)

Scottish veteran slams 'shameful' JD Vance amid Iraq and Afghanistan row

A Scottish veteran has hit out at JD Vance’s “dishonourable and shameful” comments dismissing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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