The Iraqi News Agency (INA) is the first news agency in Iraq, and the second agency to be launched in the region. It was established in March of the year 1959 as an official news agency.

Agency Law No. 158 was issued in 1959, and after this law was published in the Official Gazette on October 6 of the same year, the first printed news bulletin on paper bearing the agency’s name was launched on November 9, 1959.

The agency started its work on the radio in the Salhiya area in central Baghdad, under the name of (the Liaison Office), and the work initially consisted of daily tours to ministries and organizations to collect news and return to the radio at noon to edit, print and reproduce it.

On October 6, 1959, the agency law and its system were issued in the Official Gazette, and a decision was issued by the Council of Ministers that all news, regardless of its source, be confined to the Iraqi News Agency.

The work of the agency developed, and it was equipped with modern equipment, and a number of engineers and technicians were appointed, some of whom continued to work in the agency until its closure after the fall of the previous regime in 2003, and in 2018 a decision was issued to re-work the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Since its establishment, the agency has been managed by 18 directors, the first of whom is Ahmed Kattan, and the last of them is the current director, Sattar Al-Ardawi.

The administrative structure of the agency includes two sections: the first is the news editing section, consisting of five divisions and eight units, and the technical section consists of four divisions, in addition to the translation division and the management division.

The agency owns an integrated professional media team of editors, correspondents, technicians, photographers and proofreaders. The agency relies on workflows based on news coverage within 24 hours, dividing the work between three meals, which made it at the forefront, becoming an important source of news for local and international media.

The agency includes a website and an application via smart phone devices, in addition to being broadcast in four languages: (Arabic, English, Kurdish, Turkmen), and it has sites on a number of social media platforms, as follows:

The app has more than 400,000 subscribers

Telegram 150 thousand

Viber 125 thousand

Twitter 30 thousand

Pulse of 240 thousand

Facebook 200 thousand

Instagram 10 thousand