By John Lee. The World Bank has said it predicts real GDP growth for Iraq of 2.8 percent this year and 4.4 percent in 2024, following an estimated growth of 7.9 percent in 2022. Iraq’s growth is …
Iraq’s Growth highest of ‘Developing Oil Exporters’ – World Bank
By John Lee. The World Bank has said it predicts real GDP growth for Iraq of 2.8 percent this year and 4.4 percent in 2024, following an estimated growth of 7.9 percent in 2022. Iraq’s growth is …
Iraq Asks U.S. Court To Enforce Ruling Against Turkey Over Oil Exports
Iraq is asking a U.S. federal court to enforce a ruling against Turkey over crude oil exports Turkey received from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq …
War-damaged university in Iraq’s Mosul recovers to host Ramadan banquet
Students and staff at Mosul’s Ninevah University, which was badly damaged during a battle between Iraqi government forces and ISIS in 2017, hosted an iftar banquet on the banks of the Tigris river on …
Iran-Iraq competition in regional maritime and overland transit corridors
In recent years, Iraq has become one of the leading destinations for Chinese investments in the Middle East and a crucial link in Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative. To capitalize on its geostrategic …
US failure in Iraq sows 20 years of unrest, chaos
“The post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq has been a litany of failures,” said Jawaid Iqbal, chairman of the Department of West Asian and North African Studies at Aligarh Muslim University in India. “The US invasion of the country led to the installation of a socially isolated puppet regime that quickly became the target of an armed insurgency.
Turkey FM lashes out at Iraqi Kurdish party in wake of Kobane assassination attempt
Turkey has lashed out against an Iraqi Kurdish group that shares power in Iraqi Kurdistan over its alleged ties to Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who are waging an armed insurgency against the Turkish state, accusing the former of succumbing to …
Turkey just tried to kill Americans. Will Biden react?
General Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Kurdish militia and America’s chief ally in the fight against ISIS, was wrapping up meetings in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymani. He had been meeting …
Iraq calls on Turkey to apologize for attack on Sulaymaniyah airport
The Iraqi government called on Turkey on Saturday to apologize for what it said was an attack on Sulaymaniyah airport in northern Iraq, saying Ankara must cease hostilities on Iraqi soil. The Iraqi pr …
Iraq 20 years on: post-war reconstruction
Under the command of then-President George W. Bush, US forces invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, accusing Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein of having weapons of mass destruction. After eight years of war, Washington began withdrawing its forces from Iraq in 2011,