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Weekly Security Update for 12th October 2011

Levels of violence fell slightly in Iraq over the past week, with incidents concentrated in Baghdad, Mosul, and an arc stretching from Taji in Salah ad-Din province to Ba’qubah in Diyala province. Ta’mim province also saw a scattering of incidents while there was at least one successful attack and one prevented in Basrah province. The […]

Conditions Improve in Iraq

Despite Monday’s deadly attack against a police facility in Anbar province, overall levels of violence declined in Iraq over recent months. At least 676 people were killed between July and September as a result of over 700 separate terrorist and militant attacks. This constituted an improvement from the second quarter of the year (April-June) when […]

Weekly Security Update for 29th September 2011

Levels of violence rose in Iraq for the fourth week in a row last week, with a number of people killed and injured in nationwide attacks. Violence was concentrated in Baghdad, Mosul and the districts surrounding the capital. As warned in last week’s Security Update on Iraq Business News there were several attacks conducted against […]

Weekly Security Update for 22nd September 2011

Levels of violence rose in Iraq over the past week. Conditions are still quieter than July and June but they have been gradually worsening over the course of September. Last week saw a series of brutal attacks, mainly in the central region, affecting Baghdad and the provinces of Anbar and Babil. Mosul in the north […]

Weekly Security Update for 14th September 2011

  Levels of violence rose slightly in Iraq over the past week, with attacks concentrated in Baghdad and the districts surrounding it, as well as the two northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. There was also a slight spike in activity around the town of Dujayl in Salah ad-Din province. While bombings around the country […]

Turkish Businesses Invited to Tender for $7bn Power Deal

Turkish entrepreneurs have been invited to bid in a 6,000 megawatt electricity grid tender with a total value of $7 billion in northern Iraq, the Habertürk daily has reported. The tender for the construction of the grid is due to be open for bids on Thursday. According to the Turkish daily, the invitation to participate […]

False Reports of Suspension of Oil Exports from Kurdistan

Following reports that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had suspended oil exports through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline, the KRG has issued the following statement: The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government would like to state that there has been no policy decision for suspending oil exports from Kurdistan via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline. Over […]

Vallares Merges with Genel Energy

Just over two months after raising more than US$2.0 billion to invest in promising oil and gas projects in developing markets, Vallares PLC ("Vallares" or the "Company") today announces that it plans to merge with Genel Energy International Ltd ("Genel"), the largest oil producer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Genel has stakes in two […]

Weekly Security Update for 1st September 2011

While last week was bloody in Iraq, levels of violence actually fell slightly in the country from the week before. Nonetheless, conditions should still be regarded as hostile, with dozens of people killed in a series of suicide bombings towards the end of Ramadan. As well as several such attacks in the centre of the […]

Third Turkish Power Supply Ship to Arrive at Umm Qasr

The Iraqi Electricity Ministry has said that a third Turkish ship will arrive within a few days in the Umm Qasr port (pictured) to supply 108 megawatts of power to Iraq's struggling electricity grid. A spokesman for the ministry has added that two other Turkish floating power plants off southern Iraq supply a total of […]

Weekly Security Update for 17th August 2011

Up until Monday, the past week was turning into one of the quietest so far this year, but then a series of mass casualty attacks swept the country, leaving dozens of people dead and injured. Provincial government buildings and security force installations and patrols were the most common targets of the attacks, although civilians were […]