Iraq started restoring electricity slowly on Monday following a power outage that affected the country's central and southern areas.

Iraq has begun the process of restoring power, following an outage that affected its central and southern regions, as reported by state news agency INA (Iraqi News Agency) and sources from the Ministry of Electricity.

A major blackout disrupts central and southern Iraq, affecting millions and raising urgent concerns over the country's power infrastructure reliability.

Power was out across Iraq on Monday as scorching summer temperatures pushed electricity grid demand to unprecedented levels, authorities said.

Iraq's power outage was caused by record heat and high demand, triggering transmission line failures, officials said

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,