BAGHDAD: Iraq was hit by a power outage in its central and southern regions on Monday after a shutdown at a power plant in the western province of Anbar, electricity ministry sources said. The sudden shutdown of the Hamidiya plant led to a fault in the electricity transmission network, the sources said. The chair of Iraq’s parliament energy committee told Reuters the outage did not affect the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

BAGHDAD: Iraq was hit by a power outage in its central and southern regions on Monday after a shutdown at a power plant in the western province of Anbar, electricity ministry…

BAGHDAD: Iraq on Monday announced a nationwide power outage as rising temperatures pushed demand on the electricity grid to unprecedented levels. The electricity ministry said the…

BAGHDAD: Electricity supply returned to all Iraq’s provinces on Tuesday, a government official told AFP, expecting the grid’s full recovery within a day after a nationwide power…