Jul 31 2012
By Khayoun Saleh Azzaman, July Iraq has urged Iran to return Iraqi relics it has seized in accordance with agreements between the countries. The request was made by Tourism and Antiquities Minister Liwa Sarsam who is currently on a visit to Iran to boost cultural ties and reactivate past agreements. “We have asked the Iranian [...]
Jul 30 2012
By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, July 30, 2012 The Ministry of Planning has earmarked $450 million as part of efforts to combat poverty and unemployment in the country, the ministry spokesperson said. The spokesperson Abdulzahra al-Hindawi said both unemployed and below poverty rates were extremely high in Iraq. Citing new statistics, he said, unemployment was estimated [...]
Jul 29 2012
By Basem al-Rikabi At least $37 billion have been earmarked to revamp the country’s national grid since the 2003-U.S. invasion but Iraqis still suffer from outages that may continue up to 20 hours a day in some areas. Power shortages come as the whole country is smoldering in temperatures which have gone beyond 55 degrees [...]
Jul 28 2012
By Nishoor Ali Azzaman, July 28, 2012 Iraqi authorities have almost finished the rehabilitation of the Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad whose bombing, blamed on al-Qaeda operatives, killed 58 people and inflicted heavy damage on the building. The 2010 attack on the church was described as a massacre as gunmen held worshippers hostage and [...]
Jul 27 2012
By Fatih Abdulsalam Azzaman, July 27, 2012 Reports on fighting in Damascus, the Syrian capital, point to a systematic procedure government troops have been pursuing once entering an area that has been captured by the rebel Free Syrian Arm The reports say that Syrian troops enter houses, pick up a few young men and after [...]
Jul 26 2012
Azzaman, July 26, 2012 Allocations to revamp the country’s rickety power sector have reached $37 billion since the 2003-U.S. invasion, the Electricity Ministry has revealed. The revelation came in a statement the ministry has faxed to Azzaman in response to public pressure and press reports criticizing the current state of power supplies as most parts [...]
Jul 24 2012
By Dalya Ahmed Azzaman, July 24, 2012 The semi-independent region of Iraqi Kurdistan is looking forward to some form of economic partnership with Iran, according to a senior Kurdish official. Burham Saleh, a Kurdish leader and the former prime minister of the Kurdish regional government, said it was vital for the Kurdish region and neighboring [...]
Jul 23 2012
By Majid al-Baldawi Azzaman, July 23, 2012 The southern Province of Missan, among the most impoverished in Iraq’s 18 provinces, is to produce half a million barrels of oil in three years, said Deputy Prime Minister Hussein al-Shahristani. The remarks by Shahristani, who oversees the country’s energy sector, were made as he inaugurated the [...]
Jul 21 2012
By Sarri al-Rawi Azzaman, July 21, 2012 Iraqi refugees in Syria say Syrian rebels have been targeting them on sectarian grounds as conditions in Syria are worsening by every passing day. Thousands of Iraqis have returned home and there are reports of at least 23 Iraqi refugees killed since the latest bout of fighting in [...]
Jul 20 2012
By Fatih Abdusalam Azzaman, July 20, 2012 The latest developments in Syria might have come as a shock to many observers, particularly the explosion that claimed the lives of three of the most senior of the country’s military and security officials among them the defense minister Despite the incredible magnitude and impact of the recent [...]
