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

Local officials blamed shoddy construction and a lack of preparedness for the scale of the tragedy at the newly opened ...

From the Middle East, we verified footage of the deadly fire in Kut, Iraq, which is now known to have killed at least 61 ...

A fire that tore through a five-storey shopping centre in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut has left at least 61 dead, local ...

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

Officials in Iraq are struggling to identify more than a dozen bodies pulled from a deadly fire at a shopping mall.

Reuters' footage of the aftermath of the overnight fire showed the blackened exterior of "Corniche Hypermarket" building.

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 ...

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.

BAGHDAD (AP) — 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.

A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in southern Iraq has left at least 69 people dead and 11 others missing, the ...