A huge fire has torn through a commercial building in Iraq’s eastern city of Kut, killing dozens of people, local authorities ...

An overnight fire at a shopping mall in Iraq has killed more than 60 people, according to the country's interior ministry. The massive fire broke out early Thursday in the new, five-story shopping ...

Fire trucks stand next to the burned building of a shopping center, after a massive overnight fire killed dozens of people, in al-Kut, Wasit province, Iraq, July 17, 2025. Ahmed Saad/REUTERS ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that 61 people died in the shopping center fire, most of them from suffocation. Among the dead were 14 charred bodies that remain unidentified, it said.

Iraqi officials confirmed on Thursday that 61 fatalities were recorded, with the majority succumbing to suffocation. The ...

A local governor in eastern Iraq says a fire at a mall killed 50 people. Wasit province Gov. Mohammed al-Mayyeh declared three day of mourning for the fire that began Wednesday. Few other details ...

Iraq’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that 61 people died in the shopping center fire, most of them from suffocation. Among the dead were 14 charred bodies that remain unidentified, it said.

A fire at a newly opened mall in eastern Iraq’s Wasit province killed more than 60 people, including women and children, Iraqi officials said Thursday.