Mar 23 2013
By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, March 23, 2013 Iraq said there was no basis for reports that it will fail to handle the surge in oil output expected by 2015. “Reports doubting Iraq’s capability of exporting the volumes (of oil) that will be produced in the future are baseless,” said Abdulhadi al-Amidi, Oil Ministry’s director of [...]
Mar 21 2013
By Khayoun Saleh Azzaman, March 21, 2013 One of Iraq’s most ancient communities is threatened with extinction with only a few thousand remaining in the country. The Mandeans, who are locally known as Sabaeans, were present in Iraq, and specifically in the southern plateau between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, more than 2000 years ago. [...]
Mar 20 2013
By Marwan al-Ani Azzaman, March 20, 2013 Iraqi Turkmen say they are not being treated properly and equally and have asked the United Nations and the European Union for protection. In a statement, the head of a coalition grouping the various Iraqi Turkmen factions Arshad al-ٍSalehi said his people in the country were denied equal [...]
Mar 18 2013
By Adel Kadhem Azzaman, March 18, 2013 The Iraqi government says it is working hard to meet most of the demands raised by demonstrators and their leaders in the latest unrest that swept central Iraqi provinces. Huge demonstrations erupted in the Provinces of Nineveh, Salahudeen, Ramadi and parts of Baghdad in protest against what many [...]
Mar 16 2013
By Ali Latif Azzaman, March 16, 2013 More than 16,000 Iraqis have been kidnapped and still without a trace since the 2003-U.S. invasion, according to statistics gathered by the Ministry of Human Rights. It is the first time the ministry reveals official figures about Iraqis who had gone missing in the wars and turbulence that [...]
Mar 14 2013
By Shaymaa Adel Azzaman, March 14, 2013 In a few months, millions of cubic meters of Iranian natural gas will be flowing to Iraq to feed its power stations and earning Tehran a massive sum of nearly $16 billion a year. The deal to import natural gas from Iran has raised eye-brows about government claims [...]
Mar 13 2013
Azzaman, March 12, 2013 Ten years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq still spends billions of dollars every year to meet domestic demand for fuel, an oil expert said. Isam al-Jalabi, a former Iraqi oil minister and a renowned oil analysts, said the country has paid more than $30 billion to meet for fuel imports in [...]
Mar 12 2013
By Fareed Hassan Azzaman, March 12, 2013 Iraq’s Kurdish region trade with the outside world is now estimated at $20 billion a year, a senior Kurdish official said. The massive sum is mostly spent on imports from foreign countries with Turkey topping the list, the Governor of Arbil Province Nawzad Hadi said. Arbil is the [...]
Mar 11 2013
Azzaman, March 11, 2013 Despite its massive oil riches, Iraq is currently importing a large chunk of fuel products from Iran to meet a surge in domestic fuel needs. Iraq imports electricity from Iran as well as gasoline. But recently, it has agreed to import two million liters of diesel fuel a day from Iran. [...]
Mar 10 2013
By Fatih Abdulsalam Azzaman, March 10, 2013 Ten years after the U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation, Iraq has disappeared as a state with central authority. True, there is a central government in Baghdad but the authorities there rely on a U.S.-engineered constitution that has created a huge gap between theory and practice. Theoretically, the government [...]
