Jun 18 2013
By Saadoun al-Jaberi Azzaman, June 18, 2013 Development of one of Iraq’s largest oil fields is in full swing with 10 operating drilling rigs and four more to be added soon, the chairman of Missan Oil Company Ali al-Bahadeli said. Bahadeli said one of the four new rigs has already arrived at Halfaya and PetroChina, [...]
Jun 16 2013
By Salah al-Shamar Azzaman, June 16, 2013 Iraq has deployed four battalions on its borders with Syria to prevent infiltration by “terrorists” bent on derailing elections in two of its provinces of Nineveh and Anbar, a senior military official said. The official, refusing to be named, added extra precautionary measures and more security forces will [...]
Jun 15 2013
Azzman, June 15, 2013 A camp housing Iranian exiles in Iraq has come under a mortar attack in which at least four people were killed and 22 others injured, the camp residents said. The residents, refusing to be named for security concerns, said they had no clue of why their camp was attacked since there [...]
Jun 13 2013
By Qassem al-Fuadi Azzaman, June 13, 2013 The residents of Ana, a city 310 kilometers west of Baghdad, have celebrated the rebuilding of their ancient minaret that was blown up by insurgents in 2006, the Antiquities Department said in a statement. It said the minaret’s rebuilding, which dates to the 12 century, was part of [...]
Jun 12 2013
By Salah al-Rubaiai Azzaman, June 12, 2013 An Iraqi woman from the southern province of Dhiqar has handed very ancient Mesopotamian relics to the country’s Antiquities Department. The head of the antiquities directorate in the province, Husain Ali, said the women voluntarily came forward and passed “eight Sumerian pieces” to his office. “Our office has [...]
Jun 11 2013
By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, June 11, 2013 Iraq has agreed to ship 900,000 barrels of oil to Sudan per month on deferred payment, the Oil Ministry has said. But the ministry’s spokesperson Asem Jihad said for the agreement to go through the sides should find an international bank that will act as a financial guarantor. [...]
Jun 9 2013
By Adbulzahara al-Muhammadawi Azzaman, June 9, 2013 In the six days since the sparring Iraqi politicians reportedly put their differences aside, there have nine major car bombs most of them in the restive provinces of Nineveh and Anbar. Scores of innocent Iraqis were killed and hundreds injured in one week. When Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [...]
Jun 8 2013
By Adel Kadhem Azzaman, June 8, 2013 The government has taken a new initiative to calm down Sunni Muslim protests that have swept major towns in central Iraq. Tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating mainly in the provinces of Anbar, Nineveh and Salahudeen at what they see as marginalization by the Shiite Muslim-dominated [...]
Jun 6 2013
By Fatih Abdulsalam Azzaman, June 6, 2013 Campaigns are being mounted in numerous cities in southern Iraq for recruits to fight on the side of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The recruits join a ruinous and deadly war in Syria and funerals of many of them who got killed in the fighting there are no longer [...]
Jun 5 2013
By Abeer al-Diwani Azzaman, June 5, 2013 The nearly 7000-year old ziggurat of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Nippur is in danger and in the absence of immediate repairs it may collapse anytime, a senior Iraqi archaeologist has warned. Qadissiya University’s Professor of Archaeology Mohammed Kamel said latest heavy rains have washed away large portions [...]
