Shafaq News
Iraqi news agency publishing in Arabic, Kurdish and English.
In October 2026 Shafaq News carried Riyadh's account of Saudi Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman's 26 October visit to Tehran, which presented the trip as support for Mediation by Qatar and Pakistan.
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Carried Riyadh account of the visit
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Shafaq News is an Iraqi news agency publishing in Arabic, Kurdish and English. By its own account it was founded in 2011 by the Shafaq Foundation for Culture and Media of the Feyli Kurds, and it is chaired by Ali Hussein Feyli.
Its three languages give it readers across Iraq's Arab and Kurdish communities and abroad. It reports on the region from Baghdad's vantage, and it often carries the official accounts of neighbouring governments.
On 26 October Khalid bin Salman travelled with Pakistan's Army chief and Turkey's intelligence chief to meet Iran's Security Council secretary, Mohsen Rezaei. Shafaq relayed the Saudi framing of the visit as Mediation support; the meeting's joint text promised only more dialogue.
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