About 700 children with diarrhea and nausea were taken to hospitals in Sulaymaniyah province in northern Iraq over the past 24 hours, the Shafaq news agency reported on Tuesday

The authorities of Baghdad and six other Iraqi provinces suspended on Monday the work of state institutions due to a severe sandstorm that hit the central, southern and northern parts of the country, media reported

State-owned Turkish petroleum pipeline company Botas said on Wednesday that it had resumed pumping Iraqi crude oil to international markets after an explosion at the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline