A diplomatic crisis between Iraq and the U.S. is raising uncertainty and concern among Iraqi security officials responsible for beating back an ongoing insurgency being prosecuted by the self-proclaimed Islamic Continue Reading
The Trump administration warned Iraq this week that it risks losing access to a critical government bank account if Baghdad kicks out American forces following the U.S. airstrike that killed a Continue Reading
The walls of the American Embassy in Baghdad were still on fire and members of pro-Iranian armed groups were chanting threats outside when Iraq’s prime minister tried to explain the Continue Reading
The Trump administration refused again Friday to recognize Iraq’s call to withdraw all U.S. troops, saying that any discussion with Baghdad would center on whatever force size the United States Continue Reading
Washington on Friday spurned an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops, amid heightened U.S.-Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad, and said Continue Reading
Iraq’s crude production is steady at 4.46 million b/d in line with its OPEC quota and has not been affected by recent events in OPEC’s second-largest oil producer, an oil Continue Reading
Iraq has proven it can maintain oil production and exports without US workers for a short period, but there are major risks to crude supply from OPEC’s second-largest producer if Continue Reading
Following President Trump’s warning earlier this week, administration officials are in the preliminary stages of developing sanctions on Iraq, a path the president could legally set upon but could create Continue Reading
Iraq said on Wednesday that it had been notified by Iran that Tehran had launched a retaliatory strike against U.S. troops in Iraq to avenge the killing of top Iranian Continue Reading
Iraq set an all-time record for annual oil sales in 2019, as the federal government and autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) combined for an average 3.968 million barrels per day Continue Reading
