Shafaq News/ The Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Wednesday said that the resolution of the political impasse in contingent upon the certitude of the political actors in the country of their independence.

The President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) tweeted, "once the political forces ascertain the independence of its will and national

Shafaq News/ An Iraqi soldier has been reportedly injured in an explosion targeting a military vehicle in the north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, earlier today, Wednesday.

A source told Shafaq News Agency that an explosive device went off when a logistic vehicle of the Iraqi army passed over in the Yabes compound in al-Tarmiyah sub-district.

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Shafaq News/ Iraq recorded 199 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said today, Wednesday.

In its daily epidemiological report, the Ministry registered 547 recovery cases and a single mortality.

The cumulative count of COVID-19 cases since the emergence of the virus in the country amounted to 2323707, of whom 2294565 recovered

Shafaq News/ The member of the Sadrist parliamentary bloc, Burhan al-Maamouri, on Wednesday said that the Iraqi Ministry of Oil bears a significant portion of the responsibility for the failure of the electricity sector in the country.

Earlier today, Iraq's legislative body hosted the Minister of Electricity and senior officeholders in the ministry