Tag: Iraq

Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality,’ says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a government spokesperson said and a document from the regulator shows. The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) document said the use of the term […]

Iraq bans media from using term ‘homosexuality,’ says they must use ‘sexual deviance’

Iraq’s official media regulator on Tuesday ordered all media and social media companies operating in the Arab state not to use the term “homosexuality” and instead to say “sexual deviance,” a government spokesperson said and a document from the regulator shows. The Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) document said the use of the term […]

Iraq expels Sweden ambassador, embassy stormed over Quran burning

Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador only hours after Iraqi protesters angered by the burning of copies of the Quran in Sweden stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad, scaling the walls of the compound and setting it on fire. The Iraqi prime minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, also recalled his country’s charge d’affaires in Sweden, […]

Family of Kenyan woman in Iraq worried about her sudden silence

A family in Mombasa is distressed after one of their kin who was working in Iraq went silent. Elizabeth Nakhone Obanda, 38, left Kenya on February 16, 2019, after she was linked to the job by a recruiting agency based in the Coast region. According to the family’s spokesperson Christopher Obanda, his sister went silent […]

Coronavirus: S.Korea raises alert to its ‘highest level’ as infections tripled

South Korea went on high alert Sunday following a sharp jump in coronavirus cases, and Italy and Iran took their own drastic containment steps as an epidemic that has killed nearly 2,500 people in China continued a relentless global expansion. The World Health Organization (WHO) also warned that Africa’s poor health systems left it vulnerable […]

Mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad

In the first hints of a possible retaliatory response, mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad on Saturday.

Two rockets hit Iraq base where US troops deployed

The security sources say the two missiles hit Iraqi capital’s Green Zone.