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 […]
Around 1.5 million people in Iraq are refugees or internally displaced people, women, men and children who struggle every day to meet their basic needs and access essential services. While finding shelter and ensuring food for these people are obvious immediate priorities, education should be part of the emergency response as well as of long-term […]
Iraq's neighbour Iran has elected a “moderate conservative”, Hassan Rohani, to be its new President, a contrast to his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was more openly belligerent. The extent to which this is a real change is debated, with many sources, not least in Israel, taking a more sceptical view of developments. Iran is, of […]
By John Lee. Ashti Hawrami (pictured), the Natural Resources Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, said on Wednesday that Iraqi Kurdistan will start exporting crude oil by pipeline "very soon" after the completion of a new link to the Turkish border by the end of September. Bloomberg quotes the minister as saying that the pipeline to […]
This week at the Paris Air Show, Beechcraft Corporation announced the award of a 28-month contract extension for contractor logistics support for the Iraq Air Force King Air fleet, led by its Global Mission Support team. The Beechcraft Special Mission King Air 350ER platform was selected by the Iraq Air Force in 2006 and the […]
