Iraq has ramped up the deployment of its guards on the Kurdistan regions border with Iran.
It comes after Islamic Republics top general warned that the Baghdad governments failure to deal with anti-Iran terrorists will prompt a fresh round of Iranian strikes.
Under the guidance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces [Prime Minister Mohammed ...
Iran has tightened restrictions on travel through western borders with Iraq as authorities struggle to prevent another surge in coronavirus cases in the run-up tomajor Shia mourning days later this week.
A spokesman of Irans customs administrations said on Monday that all border crossings into neighboring Iraq will be closed to passengers until ...
Middle East Monitor - The Iraqi Joint Operations Command yesterday announced that the Basra Operations Command will control the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran and the Safwan crossing with Kuwait.
The Iraqi naval force has been assigned to take full control of the seaports in the northern, central and southern port of Umm Qasr in Basra, the ...
IRNA The Iraqi Border Crossing office announced the reopening of the Soomar-Mandeli border in the presence of Iraqi prime minster Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Saturday.
Al-Kadhim along with the head of Iraq's Border Crossing Authority Omar al-Waeli reopened the Mandeli terminal for partial trade with Iran.
Omar al-Waeli, the head of Iraq's border crossings,...
Reuters - An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck the Iran-Iraq border region on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake struck at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said.
Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew Heavens
ISNA Border Ports Authority of Iraq announced that it will reopen three border crossings with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The head of Iraqs Border Ports Authority, Omar Al-Waeli denied reports about the resumption of trade activities between Iran and Iraq.
At the request of some provinces to reopen some border crossings with Iran, the Border ...
The New York Times | Alissa J. Rubin: Iran has one of the worlds largest concentrations of the coronavirus. Iraq has had few cases, and wants to keep it that way. Things can get testy.
The voices rose angrily and a knot of people gathered on the Iraqi side of the border crossing with Iran. Two Iranian diplomats were trying to get relatives out of ...
IRNA Iraq closed its Shoushmi border with Iran's Kermanshah province on Tuesday morning as part of efforts to control the spread of Coronavirus, said Paveh Governor Parviz Idehpour.
He told IRNA that the staff members of the Iraqi side were not present at the site for border transactions on Tuesday morning.
The official further noted that today ...
Reuters - Iraq has extended an entry ban for any non-Iraqis coming from Iran, the prime minister said, as authorities in Tehran announced 15 more cases of coronavirus and a death toll of eight.
Baghdad had banned crossings by non-Iraqis from Iran on Thursday for three days and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Saturday night that the ban would ...
MNA Khosravi border, in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah, was reopened on Sunday to ease the commute of pilgrims who want to visit the Holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen ceremony.
Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari said the border crossing was reopened based on a previous agreement between Iran and Iraq, adding that this ...
Reuters - Iraq on Saturday closed its Sheeb border crossing with Iran to travelers and trade until further notice, Iraqi security sources said, as flooding continues to submerge villages in the south of Iran.
The Sheeb crossing is in Iraqs southern Miysan province.
Reporting by Ared Mohammed; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Mark Potter...
MNA |Mohsen Norouzifard: The members of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, headed by its chairman Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh paid a visit to Bamoo border post on the shared borders with Iraq in Kermanshahs Sumar region.
Press TV - Over 550 people have been injured in astrong 6.3-magnitude earthquake inwestern Iran, alsofelt in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
According to the US Geological Survey, (USGS), the quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers on Sunday.
The official IRNA news agency quoted University of Tehrans Institute of Geophysics as saying that ...
MNA A storm has hit the western border areas with Iraq, forcing the Arbaeen pilgrims heading towards Iraq to redirect their ways.
The Head of Arbaeen Headquarters Shahriar Heidari has just announced a storm with 75 km/h winds has swept away the border areas with Iraq, especially in the western city of Mehran, disrupting caravans of Arbaeen ...
Al-Monitor | Shaghayegh Rostampour: A mother covers her daughters mouth and nose with her headscarf as they rush through the heavy smog that blankets a crowded street. She stops to cough, but then continues to walk while covering her own mouth with her free hand. Maryam and her daughter Mina are not the only ones struggling with the air in this southwestern ...
MNA A security official at provisional governor office of western province of Kurdistan has said that Iran will close all the provinces border crossings with KRG as the Iraqi Kurds go to polls tomorrow.
The director general of security affairs at the provisional governor office of Kurdistan province in western Iran has said that all the ...
Tasnim - Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) has performed over 970 sorties in Iranian and Iraqi border region to put down the wildfire which is still haunting Hour al-Azim wetland in southwestern Iran.
Wildfire has been spreading across the Iraqi-Iranian region of Hour al-Azim wetlands, a transboundary body of water shared ...
MNA Iranian interior minister has signed the second cooperation document with the UNICEF to demine the border areas between Iran and Iraq.
According to the Public Relations Department of Irans Interior Ministry, the representative of theUnited Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Tehran Dr Will Parks signed a document ...
MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent a letter to Foreign Ministry, tasking the body to seriously follow the case of Hour al-Azim wildfire in Iraqi part of the wetland, said chief of Khuzestan provincial department of environment on Saturday.
The chief of Irans Department of Environment Isa Kalantari had requested for the help ...
Press TV - Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has smashed a terror outfit and killed three terrorists in the west of the country near the border with Iraq.
In a statement on Saturday, the Najaf Ashraf Base of the IRGC Ground Forces said it had identified and completely destroyed a "counter-revolutionary terrorist group" that planned ...
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