Iraq opens first large-scale solar plant in Karbala desert. Facility will generate up to 300 megawatts of electricity. More solar projects planned in Babil and Basra provinces. Goal: 12,500 MW of ...
More than 600 Shia pilgrims in Iraq have been briefly hospitalised with respiratory problems after inhaling chlorine as the result of a leak at a water treatment station, according to authorities. The ...
This aerial photo shows panels at a newly opened industrial-scale solar power plant in Karbala, Iraq, on September 17, 2025 [Anmar Khalil/AP] Iraq is set to open its first industrial-scale solar plant ...
KARBALA, Iraq (AP) — Iraq is set to open the country’s first industrial-scale solar plant Sunday in a vast expanse of desert in Karbala province, southwest of Baghdad. It’s part of a new push by the ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Ruling Shiite parties eye majority of votes in provinces with massive numbers of seats, while fears ...
Shia Muslim devotees gather between the shrines of Imam Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas (background) and Imam Hussein (not pictured) in Iraq's central holy city of Karbala on August 24, 2024, during Arbaeen ...