Amid complex economic challenges, Iraq finds itself constrained by the OPEC+ agreement, which hampers its ambitions to increase oil production, its primary source of revenue

Hawre Tofiq, head of the relations and international organizations office at the Iraqi presidency, on Monday told reporters that President Abdul Latif Rashid is not an “opponent” of any constitutional authority in the country, adding that the lawsuit filed before the top court regarding the Kurdistan Region’s salaries “came from a sense of national responsibility towards the suffering of a large segment of Iraqis” “The purpose of this lawsuit is to find an appropriate and constitutional solution between the federal government and the [Kurdistan] Regional Government”

Fire engulfs the caravans outside the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in central Baghdad

Hamas on Monday announced it was delaying the next set of Israeli hostage releases “until further notice,” accusing Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office on Monday said that Israel is "committed to respecting" the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, after the Palestinian group announced delaying the next batch of hostage releases, accusing Israel of violating the truce Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is set to convene the security cabinet to discuss the developments on Tuesday

Iraqi security forces on Monday carried out airstrikes targeting suspected ISIS hideouts in Tuz Khurmatu's Palkana hills, Salahaddin province, a security source told The New Region, adding that there are no confirmed reports on casualties

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz calls Hamas' decision to postpone the release of hostages an “outright violation of the ceasefire,” adding that he has instructed the military to “prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza”

The Kurdistan Region’s agriculture ministry said on Monday that the export of the Region's poultry and its products to Iraqi provinces will resume starting Tuesday after the Iraqi delegation's tests results came back "clean"

Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture’s veterinary department announced on Monday that poultry and its products from the Kurdistan Region, excluding the Makhmour region, will be allowed to enter the Iraqi provinces again after banning them over health concerns in late January - statement

A group of activists and organizations, working on the Baath regime’s crimes of genocide against the Kurdish people, on Monday appealed Iraq’s top court to reject a filed lawsuit calling for the cancellation of the Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs, and deleting the word “Anfal” from the title of the ministry “The terms (Anfal and Muanfalin [those subjected to the crime]) carry a painful memory for the Kurdish people, especially for the families and relatives of the victims of the Anfal crimes. It is also considered a title for the identity of the Kurdish people, and a symbol of the cruelty of the brutal racist regime, from whose injustice and brutality even children, women, and the elderly were not spared,” said the activists

Hamas on Monday announced postponing the release of the Israeli hostages who were set to be released on Saturday “until further notice,” citing Israel’s failure to abide by the terms of the ceasefire agreement, including “delaying the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with shelling and gunfire in various areas of the Strip, and not allowing the entry of relief supplies” - spokesperson

KDP spokesperson Mahmood Mohammed said on Monday that most of the issues they had discussed with the PUK have been resolved and that they reached a “common understanding” to form the next KRG cabinet, but there are a few points that still need to be discussed “at another level”

Erbil’s local security forces (Asayish) on Monday announced the arrest of one of two men accused of killing a mother and her son in Baghdad in January, torching their bodies, and throwing them in a river - statement The other suspect is believed to be hiding in Baghdad

Former Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki on Monday criticized the Sunni-majority provinces for suspending working hours in protest of the top court’s decision to suspend implementation of the General Amnesty Law, and called for supporting the role of the judiciary

Nawaf al-Fares, Syria's former ambassador to Iraq, warns interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa from visiting Baghdad to attend the Arab Summit “History has taught us a lot,” wrote the former diplomat on X

An Iraqi Airways plane, heading from Basra to Erbil, was forced to make an emergency landing in Baghdad after “one of the passengers suffered an emergency health condition during the flight which led to his death" - statement

The export of the Kurdistan Region's poultry and its products to Iraqi provinces will resume starting Tuesday after the Iraqi delegation's tests results came back "clean" - Firas Sdiq, head of the KRG agriculture ministry's animal resources directorate to The New Region

Pro-regime Iranians on Monday made their way to Tehran's Azadi tower to mark the 46th anniversary of the Islamic revolution and toppling of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji received on Monday the Deputy Director General of the European External Action Service for MENA Rosa Maria Gili and her accompanying delegation in the presence of EU Ambassador to Iraq Thomas Sailer, discussing regional developments, and joint efforts between the Iraqi government and the European Union to support the stability of the region – statement

Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani and Deputy PM Qubad Talabani arrived in Dubai on Monday to take part in the World Governments Summit, which will begin on Tuesday and last three days