Category: Iraq

Authorities in southern Iraq are concerned about the risk to the nation’s oil given the political unrest gripping Basra, Iraqi media reported Monday. Iraqi newspaper Al-Mada said internet service in Continue Reading

Iraq’s future is again tottering with protests erupting of the country. Baghdad is being confronted by internal unrest, as economic and social problems have spilled over into the political arena. Continue Reading

Curfews have been imposed, troops put on the streets and the internet reportedly shut down. Burgeoning protests in Iraq against corruption and poor services represent a major challenge and risk Continue Reading

Satellite surveillance shows that production has fully resumed at the Bai Hassan field in Iraq. The field is part of a complex of oilfields in Northern Iraq that were shut Continue Reading

Iraqi police have managed to impose control over protesters at some of Iraq’s biggest oil fields in the south, who had been demanding that companies running the fields hire local Continue Reading

The Iraqi government on Thursday attempted to quell five days of protests outside vital Basra oil fields with promises of jobs, electricity, and clean water. One protestor was killed on Continue Reading

Iraqi security forces shot protestors in an escalation of chronic frustration with a lack of jobs and services, including salty water that shut down the Basra refinery.One protestor was confirmed Continue Reading

Iraq has extended the deadline for foreign companies and investors to bid for a project to build a 100,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Kut province, the oil ministry said on Tuesday. Continue Reading