Shafaq News / The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) welcomed the nomination of Mohammed Shaya'a al-Sudani for Premiership.

The party's political bureau said in a statement on Monday, "We surely welcome the Coordination Framework's decision to nominate Mr. Mohammed Shaya'a al-Sudani for the position of Prime Minister. We hope that this step would

Shafaq News/ A senior advisor to the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, called on the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to pursue consensus over the presidency of Iraq inside the parliament of the Kurdistan region. 

"The presidency of the republic is an electoral entitlement to the people of Kurdistan," Arafat

Shafaq News/ Iraq's Federal Intelligence Agency on Monday said it captured eight persons with links to the terrorist organization of ISIS in separate operations in Baghdad, Babel, and al-Anbar.

According to an official statement, the agency's teams in Baghdad traced and captured four terrorists after luring them into ambushes at the checkpoints of

Shafaq News / A source close to al-Hannanah, the Sadrist movement's headquarters, revealed that the Coordination Framework did not inform the leader of the movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, of its intention to nominate Mohammed Shaya'a al-Sudani for premiership.

The source told Shafaq News agency that the CF did not ask for al-Sadr's opinion of its