Oil Output to Surge in Iraq

Iraq expects crude output from its southern oilfields, Rumaila, Majnoon and West Qurna Phase One, to reach about 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of this year, the head of South Oil Company (SOC) said yesterday.

Media Regulator Calls for Greater Press Freedom

The head of Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) Dr Burhan Al-Shawi, has announced plans to hold a major conference in partnership with the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council as part of efforts to abolish laws that are incompatible with press freedoms. An independent authority that is solely responsible for licensing and regulating telecommunications and media […]

4th Cell Phone License Approved

The Iraqi Council of Ministers has decided to grant a license to the 4th mobile phone provider in Iraq. “The decision comes in order to activate the communication sector in Iraq, and to provide better cell phone service to the Iraqi people,” Dr. Ali al-Dabbagh, the official spokesperson of the Iraqi government, said on Sunday […]

Najaf Council Bans Transportation Ministry

The Najaf Provincial Council has decided on Sunday to ban dealings with the Iraqi Transportation Minister Amir Abduljabbar and his Ministry. “The decision was made because the minister has an anti-Najaf policy,” a media source from the council told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He noted that the Najaf Provincial Council will file legal petitions to […]

US Charity provides ID90m for Water Project in Talafar

A project to extend a water network in al-Jazirah neighborhood in southern Talafar district, western Mosul, at a total cost of 92 million Iraqi dinars was finalized on Sunday, the mayor said. “The three-km-long project to increase the drinking water network was finalized today (May 23). It has been made possible through finance from a […]