Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to create a 500-metre no-man's land on each side of the border, and to move Iraqi farmers to new homes, a Kuwaiti official said today (Wednesday). The Al-Seyassah daily quoted foreign ministry official Jassem Al-Mubaraki as saying that under the deal, Kuwait undertakes to build up to 50 homes inside […]
Kuwait and Iraq have reached an initial agreement on sharing border oilfields, Kuwaiti Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah said on Wednesday, according to a report from Reuters. 'They [the two countries] have agreed in principle. We have signed it from Kuwait's side. They [Iraq] will be signing it maybe this week or next week,' […]
Anbar Council has launched a project to upgrade its three border crossings, with the intention of raising additional revenue, the head of the council’s investment committee said on Tuesday. The three border crossings are: Arar (on border with Saudi Arabia); Tarbiel [Tirbil] (on border with Jordan); and al-Tanf (on border with Syria). The project will […]
A former member of the Iraqi parliament has announced that Iraq lost oil wells in the border demarcation with Iran and Kuwait. Some other oil wells are located in the common Iraqi-Iranian borders in Faw and Khanaqin, but they are not divided between both parties. The Iraqi government has lost a great amount of its […]
