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The President of the Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, today hosted the foreign diplomats and representatives from international organizations based in the Kurdistan Region in order to discuss the latest political and economic developments in Kurdistan as well as in Iraq as a whole. At the outset of the meeting, the Head of the KRG Department […]
Prime Minister Nori al Maliki on January 13, 2014 chaired the official talks between the Iraqi government and the United Nations represented by its Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, with the presence of Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Minister of Human Rights and the Acting Ministers of Defense. The Prime Minister praised the role that the United […]
By John Lee. Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Danae Fer, on January 9th. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the political and security situation in the region, issues of common interest and official visits of officials and delegations between the two countries. The Ambassador stressed […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. At the end of 2012, Sunni tribes in Iraq's Anbar province began a series of protests that lasted throughout 2013. The initial demand was for the release of Sunni detainees; the detention of […]
By Mushreq Abbas for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Resolution of Anbar crisis requires security, political coordination When the Iraqi army marched on the Anbar desert on Dec. 22 to wage war against al-Qaeda fighters along the Iraqi-Syrian border, the operation […]
By Mushreq Abbas for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. In an interview with Al-Monitor, Basra governor Majid al-Nasrawi confirmed that his city had contracted a British security consulting firm (whose name he would not disclose before the completion of the contract) […]
By Reidar Visser. 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. 44 Iraqi MPs Resign: Who Are They, and What Are the […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Sunni Muslim tribesmen in Iraq's Anbar province have seized control of all police stations in Fallujah, with armed men removing all officials from their posts as the army remains positioned outside the city's […]
Prim Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government ordered the Iraq border with Syria closed on Tuesday to aid a massive military operation hunting for al-Qaeda and militant hideouts in the western desert of Iraq. Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki has been a strong supporter of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and reports suggested that his government was facilitating the transfer […]
The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad congratulates the Government of Iraq (GOI) on its launch of the Social Safety Net (SSN) program. The Social Safety Net helps ensure that unemployed and disabled Iraqi citizens have access to sufficient financial aid and benefits from the government. Many vulnerable Iraqis will benefit from this important system. The U.S. […]
From USAID/Tarabot. This video provides an overview of the historic accomplishment of the Iraqi government and those who support them - the rollout of the country's first social safety net. The video features interviews from both project staff and members of the Iraqi government, such as Nassar al-Rubaie, Iraq's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs:
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. A decade after Saddam Hussein's arrest, the now-executed Iraqi dictator's legacy of conflicts, sanctions and repression still exact a heavy toll on the country:
