Saudi hacks Iraqi Foreign Ministry’s website
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry says a Saudi Arabian individual has hacked its website, putting offensive, sectarian-charged content on it. Ministry spokesman Ahmad Jamal announced the news on Saturday, saying the ministry staff were trying to fix the problem, according to the country’s Arabic-language al-Sumaria TV network. The cyber-attack came only a day after Iraq’s Foreign Ministry reacted harshly to earlier remarks by Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, who had said Baghdad should not recruit Iraqi volunteer fighters known as al-Hashad al-Sha’bi or Popular Mobilization Units in its pending push to liberate the northern city of Mosul from the Takfiri terror group of Daesh. The fighters have proven a pivotal force in extricating the country from the clutches of the terrorists, who have been ravaging it since 2014. Iraqis carry a coffin during the funeral of members of the Iraqi government forces and volunteer fighters, who we