By Mustafa al-Kadhimi for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. An alliance combining Shiite and Sunni currents in Baghdad succeeded last Saturday, June 15, in forming a local government without the participation of the State of Law Coalition. The latter was […]
The square facing the Turkish consulate in the city of Erbil, the largest city in Iraq's Kurdistan region, had been experiencing over the past years demonstrations condemning the policies of the Turkish government headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Things, however, have changed, and the square has begun seeing demonstrations in which participants hold photos of […]
Keynote address by Dr Ashti Hawrami, KRG Minister of Natural Resources, to the CWC Iraq Petroleum Conference in London: Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a pleasure to be invited once again to the Iraq Petroleum conference in London. Thank you to the organizers CWC. We look forward to seeing you in Erbil at […]
Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 20th June 2013). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,908 (+2.9%) / $2,013 (+4.5%) (weekly change). The number of week traded shares was 53.5bn and the weekly […]
By Ali Abel Sadah for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces, decided on the night of June 16, to move nearly 8,000 Iraqi troops toward the Iraqi-Syrian and Iraqi-Jordanian borders. This […]
By John Lee. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hoshyar Zebari, has received the new Tunisian Chargé D'affaires in Iraq, Samir Jamae. During the meeting, relations between Iraq and Tunisia were discussed. The Tunisian official handed over a letter to Minister Zebari from his Tunisian counterpart concerning the development of bilateral relations. The meeting was attended by […]
By Reidar Visser. 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. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. As central Iraq grapples with a surge in violence and a longer-term struggle to wean its economy off a dependence on oil, the economy of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, of which […]
By Nassif Hitti for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The outcome of the Kuwaiti prime minister's [Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Hamad al-Sabah (pictured)] visit to Baghdad [June 12] constitutes a breakthrough in the relations between the two countries. This occurred two […]
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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met on June 19, 2013 ambassadors of the five permanent members of the Security Council accredited to Baghdad, and Deputy Representative of the United Nations (UNAMI) in Iraq, to inform them of the situation and view of Iraq on deliberations currently under way for a new resolution in the Security Council […]
The Kurdistan Region’s President and Prime Minister on Monday in Erbil met with the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, on her first visit to the Region. The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission visited Erbil to discuss Iraq’s currently instability and the Kurdistan […]
