Health

A woman holds her crying child at the cancer ward of the Children's Hospital in Damascus, Syria, Monday, March. 7, 2022. (Photo: Omar Sanadiki/AP)

Syria

In war-torn Syria, a charity offers hope to kids with cancer

Interior of Erbil International Airport (EIA). (Photo: Sabr Dri)

Kurdistan

Vaccinated travelers will no longer need PCR test to enter the Kurdistan Region

Passengers wearing protective masks wait in line to check in for their flights at the departure hall of Baghdad International Airport, July 23, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Iraq will not require COVID-19 test for travelers starting from April

Newroz celebration in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Erbil sets health and traffic plans for Newroz celebrations

KRG and WHO Iraq officials review a batch of medical supplies in Erbil, March 9, 2022. (Photo: WHO Iraq/Twitter)

Iraq

WHO delivers over 80 tons of medical supplies to Kurdistan Region

Kurdistan Region's PM Masrour Barzani delivering a speech to Health System Review, Analysis, and Reform Conference, March 8, 2022. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani highlights reforms and development in Kurdistan Region health sector

COVID-19 test. (Photo: Hasan Bratic / picture alliance)

Iraq

Iraq will no longer require PCR tests for travel: committee

Iraqi Health Minister Hani Musa Al-Aqabi during a workshop attended by the WHO representatives in Iraq and the Middle East in Baghdad, March 6, 2022. (Photo: Iraqi Health Ministry)

Iraq

Iraqi Health Ministry takes steps towards digitalization in cooperation with WHO

Fishing boats are pictured during a sand storm in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, March 4, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Iraq

Sandstorm kills 1 and hospitalizes 1,000 in Iraq

Iraqi medical workers are pictured at the coronavirus ward of Al-Shifa Hospital in the capital Baghdad, Feb. 20, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad al-Ruabye/AFP)

Iraq

Covid rages in Iraq as vaccinations lag

Photo: Archive

Iraq

Iraqi Health Ministry urges citizens to get vaccinated to ease preventative measures

Iraqi health workers take temperature of entrees to at a shrine gate. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq passes ‘peak’ of fourth COVID-19 wave; warns of new mutations: Health Ministry

A woman is pictured during receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Dana Hama Gharib/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Proof of vaccination mandatory for visitors to Erbil’s landmark hospital

Graw mineral water pool, near Pirmam. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

The medicinal qualities of Kurdistan’s mineral water

The exterior of al-Haydariya General Hospital. (Photo: Iraqi News Agency)

Iraq

Fire breaks out in a Najaf hospital

A nurse holds a used vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the Kindi Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)

Kurdistan

Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 vaccine passes issued in Sulaimani