Jul 10 2012

Fighting in Syria impacts national grid in Iraq

By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, July 10, 2012 The fighting in Syria which has polarized the Arab and Muslim world is having an adverse impact on electricity supplies in Iraq. A row has erupted between the pre-dominantly Sunni Province of Nineveh and the Shiite-controlled central government in Baghdad over whether Iranian shipments of electricity to Syria [...]