ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Baghdad court on Sunday ruled to freeze the assets of the country’s former oil minister over charges of corruption and receiving bribery, reported Iraqi state media (INA).“The al-Karkh investigation court,
Properties of Iraq’s former oil minister confiscated on corruption charges
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi judicial authorities issued a decision on Sunday to confiscate the properties of former Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail on charges of abuse of office and fraud, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.
Can Yemen hold together?
Fragmented states in the Middle East are no rarity—think of Iraq, Libya, Palestine and Syria—but Yemen is the most disunited of all. Rent by civil war for the past eight years, it is a …
100,000 Pakistani pilgrims to attend Arbaeen rituals in Iraq: Official
Based on an agreement between the interior ministries of Iraq and Pakistan, some 100,000 Pakistani pilgrims will be allowed to go to Iraq to participate in Arbaeen rituals, according to Iran’s deputy interior minister.
Government unblocks Telegram in Iraq
Presse (AFP) journalists in Baghdad, on Sunday, confirmed the app is now accessible without the need for a virtual private netw …
Iraq not safe for deportations: German MP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi asylum seekers should not be deported to Iraq because it is not a safe country, a German regional parliament member told Rudaw on Friday. More than 30,000 Iraqis have been denied asylum by the German government in the first half of this year.
Iraq bans terms including ‘gender,’ ‘homosexuality’ from media: reports
The Iraqi government is rolling out guidelines for news outlets and social media platforms that would require the censorship of LGBTQ-related terms.
Iraq’s 50C Heat Shows ‘Era of Global Boiling’ Has Begun: UN Rights Chief
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Wednesday said that the extreme summer heat and pollution of southern Iraq where he has been visiting had made it clear “that the era of global boiling” has begun.
The plot thickens over Iraq’s bank heist
The Iraqi courts have seized the Iraqi properties of Ehsan Abdeljabbar, another previous finance minister, who launched the investigation; he is abroad, too. A businessman also at the scandal’s centre …
CNPC’s Daqing unit awarded $194 mln drilling contract in Iraq
A drilling subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp has won an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth 1.4 billion yuan ($194 million) to drill wells with two rigs in Iraq’s …