Najaf

Shiite Muslims gather in Karbala for Arbaeen on Aug. 15, 2025. (AFP)

Iraq

Najaf Governor: Over 17 Million Pilgrims Participated in Arbaeen Commemoration

A medical team from Iraq's Health Ministry veterinarian department carries out a disinfection campaign. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Woman in Najaf Dies of Hemorrhagic Fever as Iraq's CCHF Cases Continue to Rise

pedestrian struggles to breathe as he walks along the side of a road through low visibility conditions due to a massive dust storm in Iraq's central city of Najaf on April 14, 2025. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq sandstorm leaves 1,800 people with respiratory problems: health officials

Elizabeth Tsurkov, Israeli-Russian researcher.(Photo: Ynet)

Iraq

Iraq’s National Security Adviser Confirms Arrival of U.S. Reconnaissance Team in Najaf

Najaf Lake. (Photo: Kurdistan24)

Iraq

Iraq's Najaf lake faces environmental crisis as water levels plummet

A rice field in Iraq. (Photo: Kurtdistan24)

Kurdistan

Innovative drought-resistant rice brings hope to Najaf's farmers amid severe water shortages

Farmers in al-Mishkhab protesting, Najaf governorate.

Kurdistan

Dozens of farmers protested in Mishkhab town

Scenes of demonstration in Kufa and al-Meshkhab districts. (Photo: Iraqi Media)

Iraq

Protests erupt in Najaf over severe power outages amid soaring temperatures

The protest in al-Diwaniyah province. (Photo: Iraqi Media)

Iraq

Protests erupt over poor services in Diwaniyah, Najaf

People navigate a street during a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2022. (Photo: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq

Health emergency declared as dust storm engulfs southern Iraq's Najaf province

This aerial view shows the Wadi-al-Salam cemetery in Iraq's holy shrine city of Najaf, on February 10, 2023. (Photo: Qasim alkaabi/ AFP)

Iraq

Vast cemetery in Iraq echoes 14 centuries of life and death

A forensics expert uses a brush to exhume a skull at the site of a mass grave, discovered by chance when property developers wanted to prepare the land for construction, in the central city of Najaf, May 18, 2022. (Photo: Qassem Al-Kaabi/AF

Iraq

From Saddam to IS: Iraq still exhuming mass graves

An Iraqi Airways plane arrives at Baghdad International Airport, July 23, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi boy eludes security to board Iran-bound plane

A motorist drives a scooter through as a heavy dust storm hits Iraq's capital Baghdad, May 16, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

Iraq suspends flights, closes schools amidst intense dust storm

A car driving through another Spring sandstorm in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, May 5, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

New dust storm hospitalizes more than 1,000 people across Iraq

A new dust storm engulfed the capital of Baghdad reducing visibility to as low as 500 meters, May 1, 2022. (Photo: Sheevan Jabary/Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Flights to Baghdad, Najaf airports canceled again due to dust storm