The latest news from Kurdistan – security updates, reconstruction and more – brought to you by Iraq Business News.
By John Lee. Three taxi drivers have reportedly been arrested on charges of transporting a group of Iranian prostitutes into Iraqi Kurdistan. Security forces told BasNews that they arrested the drivers at the Haji Omaran border crossing (pictured), between the Kurdistan Region and Iran. The women are said to be Iranian and Kurdish Iranian. (Source: […]
Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani welcomed the Czech Republic’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek, on Thursday. In a meeting in Erbil, the President and the Czech Foreign Minister discussed strengthening bilateral relations and military support by the Czech Republic to Iraq and Kurdish peshmerga forces. Foreign Minister Zaorálek, who was accompanied by his country’s […]
Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani today welcomed Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Raymond Odierno, who is visiting to assess firsthand the status of the fight against ISIS terrorists and the cooperation between the Peshmerga, the coalition forces and the Iraqi forces. General Odierno commended the bravery of the peshmerga forces and […]
A committee in charge of collecting accurate data and information on the conditions of Yezidi Kurdish women, abducted by the Islamic State in Iraq and Al-Sham, ISIS, terrorist organisation, is being set up. The decision was taken yesterday during the regular meeting of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Women Rights Monitoring Board, chaired by the KRG […]
A resolution was introduced to the US Congress that would authorise the US government to supply military equipment, weapons, and training directly to Kurdistan Regional Government Peshmerga Forces. House Resolution 5747, a bi-partisan resolution, was introduced into the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Chairmen Ed Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel. The bill authorises the […]
More than 300 thousand displaced Yezidi Kurds in Kurdistan Region The Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister’s envoy for people who fled ISIS terrorist organization from Sinjar, Dr. Nouri Osman Sinjari, said that since the capture of the town by ISIS, 263,000 have fled to Duhok, 20,000 to Erbil, 20,000 to Slemani, and a few to […]
By John Lee. Platts reports that Italy's Eni has provisionally booked a tanker to load an 80,000 mt cargo of Iraqi crude from the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Market sources said that the cargo is Kirkuk crude, and would be the first such cargo from the port since Baghdad and Erbil agreed to sell 150,000 […]
From ProactiveInvestors. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Alexander Dodds, executive vice president of exploration and production at Hungary-based MOL Group, talks about finding the balance between high risk exploration and declining oil production. Dodds says Kurdistan is the most important region […]
By John Lee. Oil Minister Dr. Adel Abdul Mahdi [Adel Abdel Mehdi] (pictured) has said that oil from the Kirkuk oil fields is now being pumped through the oil pipes and infrastructure built by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The Minister said: "150,000 oil barrels that include some oil produced from Kirkuk oil fields have […]
By John Lee. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has reportedly pumped 25 million barrels of crude oil through its independent oil pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (pictured) said on Thursday that the oil was shipped from the port in 35 separate cargoes. (Source: Reuters)
On November 19, U.S. Ambassador Stuart Jones visited Erbil to assess efforts to address the urgent humanitarian needs of displaced populations in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR). To date, the United States Government (USG) has contributed more than $202 million in support of the international humanitarian response to the complex emergency in Iraq, which began […]
This article was originally published by Niqash. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Kurdistan's Battered Women: Out Of Shelters, Into Danger And Honour Killings When a woman leaves a shelter for battered women in Iraqi Kurdistan, her family often has to sign a […]
