The following editorial was published on Wednesday by the Voice of America. The Voice of America, founded in 1942, is among the world’s most trusted sources of news and information. VOA is a multi media broadcasting organization based in Washington, D.C. Expanding economic opportunity in Iraq is as essential as building democratic institutions. The United […]
Shell and Petronas have awarded Dubai-based Dodsal Group a $106m contract to lay a pipeline at the Majnoon oilfield, an Iraqi oil official said. Reuters reports that under the deal, Dodsal Group will build a 79-km (50-mile) pipeline to carry oil from the supergiant Majnoon oilfield to a crude storage depot near Zubair in southern […]
Iraq’s cabinet has approved a $692 million [810 billion Iraqi dinar] contract for the construction of a cement factory in southern Iraq, according to Arab News. Government spokesman Ali Al-Dabbagh (pictured) said the factory will be built in Diwaniya province, 150 km south of Baghdad, and will cover an area of about 185 acres. The […]
A UN working group said on Thursday that Iraq should tightly regulate private security firms to prevent abuses by their employees when they stay on in the country after a scheduled U.S. military withdrawal. While the number of incidents involving private military and security companies in Iraq has decreased in recent years, the Government should […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford and currently based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. The opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. […]
