By Ali Mamouri for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Sistani Stresses Need for Unity over Sectarianism in Battle for Iraq As the security situation in Iraq has been severely deteriorating, news was posted on June 13 claiming that Shiite cleric Ali Sistani has […]
The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford. 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 Business News. It’s official: The provisional result of Iraq’s 30 April general election, published last month, […]
From CNN. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Andrew Stevens speaks to Gen. Anthony Zinni about what the U.S. can do to help slow down ISIS' military conquest in Iraq:
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. US President Barack Obama is weighing up how to deal with a Sunni-led rebellion in Iraq. The Obama administration is considering working with its longtime foe Iran, after fighters from the Islamic State […]
By Anne-Laure Barbosa at Constellis Consulting www.constellis-consulting.com ISIS related violence in the last 48 hours Tal Afar The multi-ethnic and religiously-mixed town of Tal Afar, mostly populated with Sunni Turkmen, reportedly fell to ISIS insurgents early on Monday and is now being hit by Iraqi airstrikes. This development is neither surprising nor significant, as the majority of […]
By John Cookson. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Traders will tell you the price of oil is a speculative market based on expectations. Most of Iraq's oil production is from the mega fields in the south, far from any fighting. But […]
By John Lee. Reuters reports that Iraqi Kurdistan is ramping up independent oil exports, with a third tanker of crude scheduled to leave the Turkish port of Ceyhan on 22nd June. The supply of oil through the Kurdistan Regional Government's new pipeline to Turkey has continued uninterrupted, despite the escalating violence in northern Iraq. Speaking […]
On behalf of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Head of the Department of Foreign Relations, Minister Falah Mustafa, successfully concludes a three-day visit to Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany, upon the invitation of Birgitt Hone, State Secretary at the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony. The three-day visit consisted of a number of meetings with Ministers, members […]
UN World Food Programme Responds to Urgent Needs of Displaced People in Iraq The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching an initial emergency operation to provide food assistance to 43,500 of the most vulnerable people displaced by conflict this week in Iraq. WFP has deployed emergency and logistics staff to Erbil in the […]
Britain will provide an initial £3 million ($5.1 million) of emergency humanitarian assistance to help civilians fleeing the ISIS advance in Northern Iraq International Development Secretary Justine Greening has activated the UK’s Rapid Response Facility (RRF), which provides emergency support via pre-approved organisations in the event of a humanitarian crisis overseas. It follows an initial […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Shiite Iran offered Saturday to consider working with longtime foe the United States if it takes the lead in helping push back Sunni Arab militants who have seized a swathe of northern Iraq:
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Millions of dollars worth of US made equipment has been reduced to wreckage in the Iraqi town of Kirkuk after a rebel led advance on the city. Sunni rebels captured Kirkuk's largest military […]
