A video broadcast on an Iraqi television station and circulated on pro-Iranian social media purports to show an Israeli-Russian researcher who was allegedly kidnapped in Iraq ByERIC TUCKER Associated Press and ABSEWELL Associated Press November 13, 2023, 6:02 PM FILE – In this Sept., 2018 selfie image provided by Emma Tsurkov, right, she and her … Read more
Comment on this storyComment BAGHDAD — As the newly married couple came together on the dance floor, a ring of Roman candle fireworks erupted around them in the crowded wedding hall as hundreds of guests watched. The fireworks, however, set the ceiling on fire. And suddenly, videos taken Tuesday night show, flames were cascading down … Read more
Wedding guests were seen running for cover as flaming debris fell from the ceiling of a wedding venue in northern Iraq, after a deadly fire broke out on September 26. Nineveh Deputy Governor Hassan al-Allaq told media that 113 people had been confirmed dead. State media put the death toll at at least 100, with … Read more
MOSUL, Iraq — A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday, warning the death toll could rise. The fire happened in Iraq’s Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. That’s a predominantly Christian area just outside … Read more
BAGHDAD — Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its residents from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of 1000’s of individuals, largely wives and youngsters of Islamic State fighters but in addition supporters of the militant group. It’s a transfer that Baghdad hopes will scale back cross-border militant threats and finally result in shutting … Read more
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Shiite cleric who has angered politicians and spiritual leaders in Lebanon and Iraq mentioned Friday that teams together with Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah try to silence voices of dissent inside the sect — together with his personal. Shiekh Yasser Auda has developed a fame on social media in recent times for his … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian twin citizen and a graduate pupil at Princeton College, is being held captive by a Shiite militia, the workplace of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu introduced Wednesday. Tsurkov was conducting doctoral analysis in Baghdad when she went lacking in March. “Elizabeth Tsurkov remains to be alive,” the … Read more