Category: Iraq

With tens of thousands of protesters marching in the streets of Baghdad to demand changes in government, Iraq ’s Shiite prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, appeared before Parliament this week hoping Continue Reading

Iraqi oil engineers are moonlighting as weapons developers, inventing remote-controlled rocket launchers and other devices for al-Hashid al-Shabi (Popular Mobilization) militia forces fighting against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) organization.The Continue Reading

The Iraqi Parliament on Tuesday approved five new ministers in a contentious and incomplete effort by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to reshuffle his Cabinet and deliver on promises to reform Continue Reading

Oil companies that piled into Iraqi Kurdistan after Saddam Hussein’s ouster are running into trouble, unraveling the region’s promise as source of easy-to-drill oil and threatening Iraq’s production surge. The Continue Reading

Iraqi forces, backed by American airstrikes and advised by American officers, have been making strides in Anbar Province, slowly taking back territory from the Islamic State. But in Falluja, a Continue Reading

As Iraqi exports from the southern coast reach a monthly record high and the government is trying to lure in new investment on the border with Iran, all is certainly Continue Reading

Islamic State oil man Abu Sayyaf was riding high a year ago. With little industry experience, he had built a network of traders and wholesalers of Syrian oil that at Continue Reading

A long-standing conflict in the multi-ethnic flashpoint town of Tuz Khurmatu exploded into sustained violence late Saturday night and Sunday, as several forces nominally allied against the so-called Islamic State Continue Reading

The former director general of the state-run North Oil Company (NOC) and nearly two dozen other people have been arrested and, pending an ongoing investigation, could be charged with using Continue Reading