BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes Continue Reading
A series of rocket attacks on a gasfield in northern Iraq has sent the U.S. contractors working on its expansion packing, dealing a blow to the Kurdish region’s hopes of Continue Reading
Iraq has ambitions to improve electricity supply using solar power, but those plans are being delayed by disputes over payment terms, inexperience among senior officials in dealing with solar agreements, Continue Reading
Iraq’s Oil Ministry is threatening to take aggressive international legal action to stop the Kurdistan region from continuing to export crude oil independently of Baghdad. In a letter sent to Continue Reading
The Kurdistan region’s Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has initiated an appeal of a Baghdad court’s July decision to invalidate four contracts with international oil companies — a move that could delay Continue Reading
Iraq’s nationwide oil production jumped by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July, rising to 4.72 million bpd, according to field-by-field data compiled by Iraq Oil Report. The increase in Continue Reading
Iraq holds a very conservatively estimated 145 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves. Hamid Younis, first vice president of the Iraq National Oil Company, said last week that the Continue Reading
Iraq’s most vulnerable citizens are the hardest hit by dust storms, which are growing in frequency and intensity due to both global climate change and government inaction. View full article Continue Reading
A young Kurdish man was killed and two others were wounded Monday in a confrontation between armed protesters and security forces guarding an oil camp east of Erbil. Eyewitnesses, security Continue Reading
Weeks after followers of an influential cleric stormed parliament, Iraq’s political crisis shows no signs of abating, despite rising public anger over a debilitating gridlock that has further weakened the Continue Reading
