Internet Access in Iraq
...Zain Iraq, Asiacell, and Korek, reaching approximately 98% of the population by 2023. By early 2024, about 36.2 million Iraqis were internet users, representing 78–79% of the population. The Iraqi...
Internet Kill Switch: Recurring Blackouts in Syria, Iraq, Algeria – And Who’s Next?
...exams: Table 2: Internet Shutdowns in Iraq During Exams (2020–2025) CountryYearExam Period(s)Shutdown ScheduleScope & NotesIraq 2020–21 [Occasional exam shutdowns] (Limited data) Iraq sporadically disrupted internet for exams in late 2010s;...
Unveiling the F-16 Fighting Falcon: The Legendary Jet’s History, Secrets, and Showdown with Modern Fighters
...a Serb MiG-29 with an AMRAAM. During the 1990s no-fly zones over Iraq (Operations Northern Watch and Southern Watch), F-16s patrolled and occasionally engaged Iraqi air defense sites and aircraft....
Global Internet on Edge: Cable Cuts, Satellite Gambits & Digital Freedom Fights (Sept 10–11, 2025)
...Iraq, the government once again implemented its annual ritual of exam-time internet blackouts. On the mornings of Sept 10 and 11 (and for several days prior), Iraq’s national internet was...
Strait of Hormuz Crisis: World’s Critical Oil Chokepoint at the Center of a Geopolitical Storm
...years. During the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, the strait was the site of the infamous “Tanker War.” Both Iran and Iraq sought to cripple each other’s economies by attacking oil shipments...
Mach 2 Marvels: The Epic Saga of Dassault’s Mirage Fighter Jets
...over 90 Mirage F1EQs in the 1980s, which they used during the Iran–Iraq War. Iraqi F1s performed strikes (often launching Exocet anti-ship missiles and even damaging vessels like the USS...
Midnight Hammer: How U.S. Stealth Bombers Obliterated Iran’s Nuclear Sites and Shook the World
...Israel.” reuters.com Tehran likely recognizes that attacking U.S. assets could provoke an even harsher American response. Nonetheless, U.S. bases remain on high alert from Iraq to the Gulf. As a...
Global Internet Access Turmoil: Outages, Crackdowns & New Lifelines (Sept 4–5, 2025)
...Europe for about an hour, prompting a Turkish government inquiry cybernews.com cybernews.com. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province remains under a weeks-long mobile internet shutdown and Iraq imposed daily internet blackouts...
100 Quantum Computing Companies Shaping the Global Quantum Revolution (2025)
...In 2023, Diraq won a DARPA project to benchmark scalable quantum platforms and announced a partnership to open a quantum chip facility in the US diraq.com. Diraq’s end-to-end approach –...
F-35 vs F-22 vs F-16: The Ultimate 2025 Fighter Jet Showdown
...reportedly shot down enemy drones that posed threats ts2.tech. One F-22 pilot recounted that over Syria and Iraq, Raptors ended up doing a lot of “drone hunting,” using their advanced...
Internet Access Revolution: Starlink’s Global Surge, Broadband Booms & Outages – Aug 30–31, 2025
...same time, authorities in Iraq’s Kurdistan region instituted brief internet shutdowns as a matter of policy: on the morning of Aug 30, service was suspended for about an hour (6:30–7:45...
State of Internet Access in Jordan: From Fiber Optics to Starlink
...2022 partnership between Telecom Egypt and Orange Jordan to create a new high-capacity route via Iraq was established to diversify transit paths developingtelecoms.com. This helps ensure reliability and lower latency...