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03.10 / 23:37

Citi Platform Stealth Ubisoft Xbox classical Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Check out release date, plot, gameplay, platforms and more

Ubisoft's next addition to the Assassin’s Creed series, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, was initially planned as an expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla but has now become a standalone game. Here's what you need to know.

11.05 / 04:13

markets Action President Department Updates The US tied his bank to Iran proxies. Now he’s Trump’s choice to run Iraq.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.A little-known Iraqi tycoon named Ali Al Zaidi has emerged as the likely next prime minister of Iraq with the backing of President Trump, who has invited the businessman to Washington and said the U.S. “is with him all the way.”The White House endorsement has come with a demand that Zaidi exclude Iranian-backed militias from Iraq’s next government and curtail Tehran’s influence in Baghdad.He has faced similar U.S. pressure before: Zaidi owns a bank that the Treasury banned from dollar transactions in 2024 over suspicions it was doing business with a militia leader linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, current and former U.S.

18.04 / 04:41

UPS LEGO War show audience Videos In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.In previous decades, propaganda for murderous Middle Eastern regimes tended to be unpersuasive. As American forces rolled into the Iraqi capital in 2003, Saddam Hussein’s information minister, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf, stood on a roof and claimed that “Baghdad is safe…the infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gate.” He added that God was “grilling their stomachs in hell”. Behind him, television audiences could see Iraqi soldiers fleeing for their lives.In today’s Gulf war, astonishingly, a murderous dictatorship appears to be winning the propaganda battle against the land of the free and the home of Hollywood.

22.03 / 01:53

markets Citi community Trade War symphony The merchant who built Bombay: How David Sassoon shaped a global city

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Sassoon Docks, tucked away in the bustling heart of South Mumbai’s Colaba, is a living testament to the city’s maritime soul. Just a stone’s throw from the Gateway of India, it is more than a mere port—it is the fish-scented, beating heart of Mumbai, where history, hustle, and heritage converge in an unforgettable sensory symphony.

30.01 / 10:37

markets FIVE security Refugees shooting Investigations Salwan Momika shot dead: Who was the controversial Iraqi refugee in Sweden known for publicly burning the Quran?

Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi refugee known for burning copies of the Quran, was shot and killed in his home in Sodertalje, Sweden, late Wednesday, along with fellow protester Salwan Najem. Swedish authorities confirmed the death and have detained five individuals in connection with the killing.

24.01 / 06:55

security economy Food President War country International Syria's economic pains far from over despite Assad's ouster

Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country’s dire economic conditions haven't changed

08.01 / 02:21

UPS Strategy economy Research Universities cover innovations How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century—even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa brothers, sons of an astronomer in Baghdad, created the first machine with a stored program there and scientific textbooks from the institute were translated and made their way to Europe.

20.11 / 13:27

Provident Citizens community War country International Iraq launches its first national census in nearly four decades

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict and political divisions

06.10 / 16:53

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: “Buy on the sound of cannons, sell on the sound of trumpets." — Nathan Mayer Rothschild 17 January 1991. Time: 2.38 am.

09.09 / 16:02

UPS BLOCK Trade Interviews International Iraqi banks used US-created system to funnel funds to Iran

Ali Ghulam was the undisputed dollar king of Iraq for almost a decade. His three Baghdad banks wired tens of billions of dollars in that time outside the country, ostensibly for car parts, furniture and other imports. He was one of the biggest operators in an ad hoc banking system set up around two decades ago under the U.S.

29.08 / 14:58

Highways Southern stage country Turkey hosts meeting with Iraq, Qatar and UAE on multibillion-dollar infrastructure hub

Transport ministers from Turkey, Iraq, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are meeting in Istanbul to discuss a multibillion-dollar regional transportation project designed to ease the movement of goods from Asia to Europe through Iraq

27.08 / 17:31

Citi Allegiant country concert What is Islamic State, the group implicated in Germany stabbing? Check history, new tactics, and strength in Africa and Middle East

Islamic State has described the 26-year-old Syrian man taken into custody after a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen as a «soldier» of the group. Though largely crushed by a U.S.-led coalition several years ago, IS has managed some major attacks while seeking to rebuild. They include an assault on a Russian concert hall in March that killed at least 143 people and two explosions in the Iranian city of Kerman in January that killed nearly 100 people.

07.06 / 23:49

UPS Target security War Relationships Attacks on businesses linked to US brands rattle Baghdad as anger over the war in Gaza surges

A flurry of recent attacks in Iraq, apparently orchestrated by supporters of Iran-backed, anti-American militias, reflect surging anger against the United States, Israel’s top ally, over the war in Gaza

18.05 / 02:23

FIVE security WhatsApp Iraq's Kurdish Regional Security Council announces arrest of top aide of former Islamic State leader

BAGHDAD: The Kurdish Regional Security Council announced in a statement on Friday that it captured a senior Islamic State figure, Socrates Khalil. Khalil was known to be a confidant of the late Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. «After spending five years in Turkey, Khalil returned to Kurdistan with a forged passport and was swiftly apprehended,» the statement said.

08.05 / 11:37

UPS Art Actor love performer stage Relationships play ‘Letters of Suresh’: A play that celebrates handwritten letters

Tumhari Amrita and Mughal-e-Azam—is rehearsing for his new play, Letters of Suresh. And as the title suggests, actor Vir Hirani can be seen reading out excerpts from a set of letters. The play is not set too far back in the past; rather, it deals with the post-pandemic reality.

28.04 / 06:55

TikTok social pop dance stars Videos Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad shot dead outside her home in Baghdad: All you need to know

AP that the assailant shot the victim and then took her phone and fled the scene. Om Fahad, whose real name is Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi, was a popular TikTok star.

23.04 / 08:42

Cooper Waters Fighting security President Kurdish separatists and water issues loom large in long-awaited visit of Turkey's Erdogan to Iraq

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is making his first official visit to Iraq in more than a decade as Ankara seeks greater cooperation from Baghdad in its fight against a Kurdish militant group that has a foothold in Iraq's north

21.04 / 07:54

Citi security reports Investigations Iraq's PMF force says base was attacked, army investigates

security force that includes Iran-backed groups. The force commander said it was an attack while the army said it was investigating and there were no warplanes in the sky at the time. Two security sources had said earlier that an airstrike caused the blast, which killed a member of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and wounded eight others at Kalso military base about 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad. In a statement, the PMF said its chief of staff Abdul Aziz al-Mohammedawi had visited the location and «reviewed the details of the investigative committees present in the place that was attacked».

20.04 / 21:44

Mobile War Investigations Iraq investigates a blast at a base of Iran-allied militias that killed 1, US denies involvement

Baghdad: Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they were investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, killing one person and injuring eight. Militia officials had initially described the explosion at the Kalsu military base north of Babylon — a former US base that was handed over to the Iraqi military in 2011 — as an airstrike, blaming it on US forces. The US Central Command denied in a statement that it had carried out any airstrikes in Iraq.

14.04 / 01:25

security Election President show rights Donald Trump says Iran attack on Israel shows US 'weakness' under Joe Biden

Donald Trump on Saturday blasted President Joe Biden over Iran's major attack on Israel, alleging that his rival in November elections showed American «weakness» in the Middle East. «God bless the people of Israel. They are under attack right now. That's because we show great weakness,» he said at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

13.04 / 13:35

War country 2020 rights Iran says Israel 'in complete panic' over Syria attack response

Israel is panicking over a possible retaliatory response from Iran after a strike in Syria which killed members of its Revolutionary Guards. «It has been a week that the Zionists are in complete panic and are on alert,» Yahya Rahim Safavi, senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.

11.04 / 07:23

Target Death show 2020 reports US warns of imminent attack on Israeli assets by Iran or proxies

WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence reports show that an attack on Israeli assets by Iran or its proxies could be imminent, U.S. officials said Wednesday, as the top American military commander for the Middle East headed to Israel to coordinate a response.

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