By John Lee. The Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Rashid, has addressed the UN's Water Conference in New York, calling on Turkey to increase cooperation on water management. He also called for a permanent committee to establish regional, basin-wide agreements, with a practical enforcement mechanism under the auspices of the United Nations, to ensure an adequate […]
By Bilal Wahab for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Tipping Point of the Iraq-KRG Energy Dispute Baghdad's legal wins won't mean much if it mishandles the political end, angers Turkey, and further damages the […]
By John Lee. The Chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC), Dr. Haider Muhammad Makiya, has met with Sheikh Hazar Al-Zibari, Chairman of Hazar Group, which is the Iraqi partner of the Turkish YDA Holdings . During their meeting, Sheikh Al-Zibari discussed various projects that the group intends to implement in Iraq, including residential city […]
By John Lee. Exports from Turkiye (Turkey) to Iraq reportedly increased by 16.4 percent in 2022. According to data issued by the Turkish Exporters Association (TIM), Turkiye sold goods and services valued at $10.4 billion to Iraq during the year, up from $9.0 billion the year before. Meanwhile, Turkish projects in Iraq were valued at […]
By John Lee. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated critical nodes of a key financial facilitation network of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which included four individuals and two entities in Türkiye, who have enabled the terrorist group's recruitment and financial transfers to and from […]
