News from Iraq
39,216 news articles from publishers in Iraq, searchable now through a free API that needs no key.
The busiest publisher in this slice is www.kurdistan24.net with 11,296 articles, 28.8% of the total, followed by www.shafaq.com, www.alsumaria.tv. By language it splits into Arabic (23,548), English (6,084), ckb (4,527) and 6 more. Daily volume averages about 704 articles over the last 8 days, peaking at 923 on 2026-09-01.
Fetch it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IQ&date=today&sort=date&size=20"No API key, no signup, no quota. The response carries the headline, description,
publisher, publication time and the original URL for every article, and the full body text
if you ask for it with full_text=true.
Count it
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/stats?country=IQ&top=20"Returns exactly the breakdown shown on this page: which publishers, which languages, and how the volume splits across the last 90 days. About 200 tokens, which makes it the cheapest way for an agent to decide whether this slice is worth reading.
Country is inferred, not declared. Before counting Iraq articles, read
country_source — and add
strict_country=true to exclude values derived from an en-US
template default.
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IQ&strict_country=true&date=today&size=20"Latest from this slice
The newest articles matching this filter at the time this page was generated. Headlines link to the publisher — we index and search, we do not host.
| Published | Headline | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07T14:15 | تعاون بين بغداد وأربيل يطيح بتجار مخدرات وضبط "كريستال" بحوزتهم | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T14:06 | مدير الوكالة الدولية للطاقة الذرية: نبحث مع #إيران استئناف تفتيش منشآتها النووية بطريقة آمنة ضم | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T14:06 | القاضي زيدان يبحث مع القائم بالأعمال الأمريكي دعم إجراءات تنفيذ برنامج حصر السلاح | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T14:00 | مدير مكتب القائد العام: 30 أيلول موعد انتهاء مهام قوات التحالف والانتقال لصفحة جديدة | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T13:57 | بلغت 317 مليون دولار.. انخفاض صادرات الهند للعراق بالربع الثاني من 2026 | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T13:57 | برلماني يطالب بإنصاف حملة الشهادات العليا والأوائل في موازنة 2027 | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T13:54 | السفارة العراقية في طهران تشكل لجنة لمتابعة الاعتداء على الطلبة العراقيين في سمنان | hathalyoum.net |
2026-09-07T13:51 | دومین زمین لرزه در بوئین سفلی کردستان؛ زلزله ۴.۴ ریشتری ثبت شد | www.kurdpress.com |
Who publishes it
The 18 most active publishers inside this slice right now. Not a curated list — this is simply who appeared most often.
| Publisher | Articles | Share | API |
|---|---|---|---|
www.kurdistan24.net | 11,296 | 28.8% | query |
www.shafaq.com | 10,719 | 27.3% | query |
www.alsumaria.tv | 7,501 | 19.1% | query |
hathalyoum.net | 5,837 | 14.9% | query |
ar.mehrnews.com | 1,315 | 3.4% | query |
www.kurdpress.com | 976 | 2.5% | query |
aliraqnews.com | 458 | 1.2% | query |
ckb.abna24.com | 270 | 0.7% | query |
alghadeertv.iq | 255 | 0.7% | query |
mustaqila.com | 152 | 0.4% | query |
www.rudaw.nl | 143 | 0.4% | query |
www.iraq-businessnews.com | 113 | 0.3% | query |
rawabetcenter.com | 80 | 0.2% | query |
kimadia.gov.iq | 66 | 0.2% | query |
karbala-tv.iq | 28 | 0.1% | query |
imaiq.net | 5 | 0.0% | query |
www.philips.iq | 1 | 0.0% | query |
www.semakurd.net | 1 | 0.0% | query |
Languages published in Iraq
What this country actually publishes in, which is often more than one language and rarely what a single language filter would suggest.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | 23,548 | 60.0% |
| en | English | 6,084 | 15.5% |
| ckb | ckb | 4,527 | 11.5% |
| tr | Turkish | 1,554 | 4.0% |
| fa | Persian | 1,318 | 3.4% |
| kmr | kmr | 1,211 | 3.1% |
| ary | ary | 458 | 1.2% |
| nl | Dutch | 143 | 0.4% |
| ku | ku | 118 | 0.3% |
Domain zones used by Iraq publishers
Publishers here do not all use the national zone. This is the split that country inference has to work against.
| Code | Name | Articles | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| net | global network | 17,139 | 43.7% |
| com | global commercial | 14,083 | 35.9% |
| tv | media | 7,501 | 19.1% |
| iq | Iraq | 350 | 0.9% |
| nl | Netherlands | 143 | 0.4% |
Volume by day
How much this slice produces daily. Useful for sizing a job before you run it, and for spotting whether a spike is real or an artefact of one publisher.
| Day | Articles | |
|---|---|---|
2026-09-07 | 178 | |
2026-09-06 | 904 | |
2026-09-05 | 758 | |
2026-09-04 | 679 | |
2026-09-03 | 374 | |
2026-09-02 | 920 | |
2026-09-01 | 923 | |
2026-08-31 | 894 | |
2026-08-30 | 793 | |
2026-08-29 | 811 | |
2026-08-28 | 656 | |
2026-08-27 | 717 | |
2026-08-26 | 218 | |
2026-08-25 | 175 |
Combine with other filters
# Iraq, published today, full article bodies
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IQ&date=today&full_text=true&size=10"
# Iraq, search phrase, ranked by relevance
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IQ&q=economy&sort=relevance&size=20"
# Iraq, newly ingested in the last 15 minutes
curl "https://freenewsapi.ai/v1/search?country=IQ&sort=crawled&from=now-15m&size=50"