At least 71 people died Thursday in northern Iraq when the ferry boat they were on sank, a security official said, as rescue operations were ongoing in the Tigris River's fast-flowing waters.
QRCS will rehabilitate and operate Mosul General Hospital for eight months, serving the city's population of 500,000, as well as 100,000 indirect beneficiaries.
These distributions come under a year-round relief programme funded by Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD).
Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) has announced that it has provided a $3mn humanitarian grant to support the water and sanitation sector in Mosul city in Iraq and its surroundings, focusing on the rehabilitation of water networks in the region, distribution networks and water supply stations.
Iraqi forces on Tuesday battled up to the edge of Al-Qaim, the largest town still held by the Islamic State group in the country, as they pushed a final assault on the jihadists.
The separate assaults across the Iraqi-Syrian frontier aim to deal a final blow to the Islamic State "caliphate" that has crumbled this year in Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi forces have discovered a mass grave west of second city Mosul containing dozens of bodies of Islamic State group fighters probably killed in an air strike, officials said Friday.
About 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State militants have been moved to a new site north of Mosul, Iraqi authorities confirmed on Monday...
Islamic State, which seized nearly a third of Iraq in 2014 in a stunning defeat for the army, now controls just 10% of the country, according to the US-led international coalition against the jihadists.
The Joint Operations Command said Iraqi forces held all 29 districts of the city and were pursuing final mopping up operations.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced early Sunday the start of a battle to retake Tal Afar, a key Northern Iraqi bastion of the Islamic State (IS) group and one of their last remaining strongholds in the region.
A 16-year-old girl from Germany has been identified in Iraq one week after the capture of 20 female Islamic State fighters in the liberated city of Mosul, officials in her home state of Saxony confirmed.