Shafaq News/ A leading figure in the Coordination Framework (CF), a consortium of mainly Iran-backed Shiite political forces, refuted media reports on internal talks to annul the candidature of Mohammad Shiyaa al-Sudani for Iraq's premiership following the recent row with the Sadrist movement's supporters in Baghdad.

In a statement to Shafaq News

Shafaq News / The leader of al-Hikma (Wisdom) movement, Ammar al-Hakim, received on Sunday Iraq's Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi.

A statement by al-Hakim's office said that the meeting discussed the latest political developments in the country.

It added that the two sides discussed the need to benefit from the rise in oil prices to develop the

Shafaq News/ Iraq's National Backbone, a government-funded project to establish a nationwide fiber optic infrastructure network, reported "terrorist attacks" targeting cables installed in the governorate of Basra in the far south of the country.

An official statement said that a newly installed cabinet coded FBS64 was sabotaged a few days prior to

Shafaq News / The Babel Criminal Court issued a 15-year prison sentence against three officers involved in the Jableh massacre.

A judicial source told Shafaq News Agency that ten police officers had been declared not guilty of the crime.

The Security Media Cell disclosed, on January 2, new details on the Jableh massacre.

The head of the Cell, Saad