By John Lee. The Royal Jordanian Air Academy in Amman, Jordan, has won a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $12,789,935 for English language and technical training to Iraqi Air Force students. Training will be at the Royal Jordanian Air Academy, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 8, 2014. (Source: U.S. Department of Defense)
By John Lee. Ruebin S. Thomas, a former civilian contractor, has pleaded guilty to stealing two electric generators from a U.S. military base in Iraq, reports Associated Press. Thomas, who worked for Honeywell Technologies at the Camp Victory Base Complex in Baghdad, stole two generators valued at $176,000 each in June 2009. Sentencing was scheduled […]
By Harith Hasan for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq is currently the scene of a sharp regional conflict between Iran and its opponents. This is nothing new, however. Regional events have come to show that any country witnessing political or social instability, amid […]
By John Lee. General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $56,481,809 cost-plus-fixed-fee, non-option eligible, non-multi-year contract modification (P000109) of contract (W56HZV-13-D-0015) for continuation of contractor logistics support and base life support services in Iraq. This is part of Foreign Military Sales to Iraq. Performance location will be Iraq with funding from fiscal 2013 Other […]
By Adnan Abu Zeed for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Arab Jibor, a neighborhood south of Baghdad that is home to a variety of different sects, is part of an area that encompasses the Iraqi capital known as "hizam Baghdad," Arabic for the "Baghdad […]
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari held a meeting with the UK Ambassador to Iraq, Simon Collis, at his office on August 28th. During the meeting, the two officials discussed Iraqi - British relations, the political situation in the region, and the developments of the Syrian crisis and the ongoing international reaction to it. The Minister reviewed […]
By John Lee. Iraq is in talks with the U.S. government to buy 200 Bradley Fighting Vehicles from BAE Systems, according to Defense World. A BAE official reportedly said that the potential deal is to take place in 2014. The Iraq contract would provide recently upgraded M2A2 ODS (Operation Desert Storm) variants to the Baghdad […]
By Ali Abdel Sadah for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The armed clashes between the Mahdi Army and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq that took place in east Baghdad at the beginning of August aroused concerns that armed conflicts might prevail in the streets once […]
By Tom Walker, Director, Assaye Risk COUNTRY OVERVIEW Iraq, especially Baghdad and surrounding provinces, bore the brunt of an especially violent week as a re-supplied and resurgent ISI continue to pressurize the armed forces, the government and secular Sunni’s with a deadly bombing campaign that the ISF seem unable to combat effectively. Baghdad of all […]
Bomb attacks in northern Iraq have damaged part of the pipeline leading to the Turkish port of Ceyhan (pictured), according to a report from Associated Press. Three bombs exploded next to the pipeline on Wednesday night in a deserted area south of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad. AP's sources said that technical teams […]
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari held a meeting with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates, Mr. Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Shehhi, at the Ministry's head office on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed relations between the two countries and ways to develop and support them politically and economically. They also discussed recent developments in the Syrian crisis and […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Forty thousand Syrian refugees fled to Northern Iraq last week. That's on top of 160,000 other refugees already in the region. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan joins us live from the Domiz camp in […]
