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Saudi Arabia plans fresh round of talks with Iran over rapprochement, says FM
Feb 21, 2022 02:13Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister says rapprochement with Iran is possible as the kingdom is planning to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with the Islamic Republic.
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US man charged with torturing worker in Iraqi Kurdistan, trafficking arms
Feb 20, 2022 04:48An American man has been charged with torturing a worker while he was managing a project to construct a weapons factory in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region back in 2015.
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Iraqi federal court orders Kurdish government to ship all oil to Baghdad
Feb 16, 2022 09:15Iraq’s federal court has ordered the Iraqi Kurdistan government to deliver all of the oil it produces to Baghdad, dismissing an oil and gas law regulating the oil industry in the autonomous region as unconstitutional.
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Nasrallah: Hezbollah declined US big money offer to betray Palestine
Feb 09, 2022 09:50Hezbollah's Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says the Lebanese resistance movement rejected an offer of financial support by the United States in exchange for turning its back on Palestine and ending confrontation with the occupying Israeli regime.
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Iraq’s parliament fails to elect new president due to lack of quorum, postpones vote indefinitely
Feb 08, 2022 04:29Iraq’s parliament has canceled a vote for a new head of state as it lacked the necessary two-thirds quorum to hold a session, a move that could prolong political uncertainty and government formation in the country.
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Iraqi court suspends former Foreign Minister Zebari's nomination for presidency
Feb 07, 2022 04:01The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq says it has temporarily suspended prominent Kurdish politician Hoshyar Zebari’s presidential bid, just one day ahead of parliament's election of a new president.
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Iraqi resistance group warns Turkey to withdraw troops ‘before it’s too late’
Feb 06, 2022 11:40The Iraqi anti-terror Kata'ib Hezbollah group, which is part of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, has denounced the recent Turkish military strikes on the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, calling on the Ankara government to withdraw its forces from the West Asian country before it gets "too late."
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Regional states capable of solving issues if foreign intervention ends: Iran president
Feb 06, 2022 05:47President Ebrahim Raeisi says the United States' excessive demands are the root cause of the existing problems in the region, emphasizing that regional states are capable of solving issues if foreign intervention comes to an end.
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Sadrist bloc suspends talks with other factions, boycotts parliamentary session to elect next Iraqi president
Feb 05, 2022 09:21A major Iraqi political alliance led by influential Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has suspended talks with other factions for the formation of the next government, and announced a boycott of next week’s parliamentary session to elect a new president.
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Iran-Saudi talks serve regional security: Iraqi FM
Feb 03, 2022 09:28Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, whose country has hosted several rounds of rapprochement talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia, highlighted the positive impact of the negotiations between Tehran and Riyadh on regional stability and security.