National Overview The total number of hostile incidents reported nationally increased for the third week in a row, seeing a significant rise in the number of recorded incidents in Baghdad and slight rises in the north and north central regions. The west and south east regions remained the same, in terms of numbers of incidents, […]
National Overview This reporting period saw the levels of incidents rise by approximately 20% compared to the previous week. There was a significant rise in the number of recorded incidents in the North, North Central and Western Regions of Iraq, with the rest of the country experiencing no real change or slight reductions in the […]
National Overview 145 incidents were reported nationally during this reporting period showing a marked increase in the level of incidents from last week when only 92 were officially reported. A slight rise in the use of Explosively Formed Projectiles was also seen this week with four detonations country wide compared to only two last week; […]
Dubai Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, or Etisalat, is in a three-pronged expansion plan as it eyes new acquisitions in Syria, Iraq and an increased presence in India. "The Iraqi government announced it would issue a fourth licence and we expressed our interest," Etisalat chairman Mohammad Omran said yesterday. "The [Syria] government has announced that it would […]
The Agriculture Directorate in Dhi Qar said that it was surprised by the decision taken by the Common Agricultural Governmental Commission which banned rice agriculture in Dhi Qar province. However, earlier the government had allowed planting 7500 dunom with rice during the current season. The directorate said that the commission also banned planting rice in […]
Basra Governor, Shaltagh Abboud al-Mayah, discussed on Monday with Jordanian minister of finance businessmen’s contribution in the reconstruction operations in the province, according to an official statement. “The minister expressed his ministry’s readiness to provide all facilities and to receive Iraqi employees to train them in banking, accounting and tax,” said the statement received by […]
Relationship between the state-owned al-Rafidain Bank and the private al-Warkaa Bank will normalize within days. “The al-Warkaa Bank has submitted guarantees that exceed the amount of deals between the two banks,” a source from the al-Rafidain Bank told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He noted that recent news reports about the financial status of al-Warkaa Bank […]
Kuwait's Zain has signed a services management agreement with Motorola. Under the three-year contract, Motorola will operate and manage the Kuwaiti telecoms 3G network as well as handle the design, planning, support and optimisation. The two firms also have existing contracts in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Jordan for several different technologies, network domains and […]
The Iraqi transportation ministry has said that properties of the bankrupted Iraqi Airways will go to the state, Aswat al-Iraq has reported. The carrier, which had only one old airplane, could not purchase more due to the Kuwaiti compensation claims, the ministry said. The source described the airlines properties as "very little". ( AME Info […]
Reuters‘ Serena Chaudhry reports lack of water is ruining crops and farmers’ livlihoods. She cites the case of Abdullah Hasan a 50-year-old father of five from Falluja in western Anbar province who has been was forced to abandon his 50 acres of land and take a job in construction after years of drought killed off […]
The Iraqi port of Umm Qasr received six ships carrying more than 200 thousand tons of rice for the Trade Ministry, on Sunday. “The Ships Apostolos, Patriarch, Alitis, Stellajabbah, Rubystar, and Vero 9 arrived by the port carrying more than 200 thousand tons of rice from U.S., Vietnam, and Thai origins,” the ministry said in […]
Laws and regulations, in addition to audit and follow up commissions, make it hard to manipulate the Iraqi banking system, said a source from the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI). “Our duty is to monitor the performance of Iraqi banks , and foster their development and financial status,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency […]
