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PetroChina can become the biggest investor in Iraq’s oil ventures if the negotiations it is engaged in turn out to be successful. It wants to be engaged in the development of the West Qurna oilfield, 50 km northwest of the Read more
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said that Iraq will begin to receive its $4,2billion arms from Russia in September 2013, but didn’t give enough details. Among the first deliveries will be Mi-28NE Night Hunter helicopters and air defense systems. The prime Read more
According to Nihad Mousa, director general at the Iraqi oil ministry, a number of consortia from different points of the globe have manifested their interest in participating in the construction of the country’s first export pipeline in decades. Iraq’s oil Read more
Iraq has begun talks with foreign energy firms on reducing its long-term oil production ambitions, due to the slumping global crude demand forecasts. It is now planning to spread output over a longer period of time. The talks include all Read more
United Nations Compensation Claims Commission Chief Khaled Al-Mudhaf, has reminded Iraq of its duties to honor its dues, after failing to pay the remaining compensation it owes to Kuwait, as reparations for the invasion under Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1991, Read more
Neighbors of troubled Syria have raised concerns about the risk of the civil war crossing borders, with fears that the government has been using chemical gas on its citizens. They have also sidelined a joint force intervention led by the Read more
The Kurdistan region of Iraq, Bina Bawi, has attracted an Austrian Oil company, OMV, which is also partly owned by the Abu Dhabi government, holding 24.9% stake. This company is already pumping gas in this region and it has set Read more
The Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq hired the director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham to travel all over Iraq to visit artists in the main cities of the country. Then he chose 11 to represent Iraqi art Read more
The first Iraqi plane to fly to Kuwait in 22 years landed on Wednesday on the tarmac of the international airport of Kuwait City with on board the Iraqi Foreign and Transport ministers. Relations were severed between the two countries Read more
Foreign journalists are finding it more and more dangerous to do their work freely in Iraq because of continuing instability in the Middle Eastern country. A week ago a French-Australian journalist was arrested by Iraqi government security forces for taking Read more