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Baghdad ends air blockade on Iraqi Kurdistan
Middle East

Baghdad ends air blockade on Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi authorities have said they will end a six-month air blockade imposed on Iraqi Kurdistan in response to the region’s…
Iran signs $740 million agreement on oil project
Middle East

Iran signs $740 million agreement on oil project

Iran’s state-run oil company has signed a $740 million agreement with a Russian-Iranian consortium to develop two oil fields near…
Oil companies temper Iraq’s dreams of production expansion
Middle East

Oil companies temper Iraq’s dreams of production expansion

Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer of crude, is hitting a roadblock in the next phase of expanding its oil production capacity…
Turkish warplanes destroy 18 Kurdish militant targets in Iraq: Anadolu
Middle East

Turkish warplanes destroy 18 Kurdish militant targets in Iraq: Anadolu

Turkish warplanes destroyed at least 18 targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq over the…
Cubs of the Caliphate: rehabilitating Islamic State’s child fighters
Middle East

Cubs of the Caliphate: rehabilitating Islamic State’s child fighters

While children who have been through war typically draw devastating pictures of the violence they have suffered, few show themselves…
For Pyongyang, Mideast offers cautionary nuclear tale
Middle East

For Pyongyang, Mideast offers cautionary nuclear tale

As North Korea considers negotiating over its nukes, it may find lessons in the Middle East, where leaders imperiled, paranoid…
Iraqi-Canadian man pleads guilty to role in deadly attack on US base
Middle East

Iraqi-Canadian man pleads guilty to role in deadly attack on US base

An Iraqi-Canadian man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a US charge that he helped orchestrate the April 2009 truck bombing…
Iraqi parliament approves budget, Kurdish lawmakers boycott vote
Middle East

Iraqi parliament approves budget, Kurdish lawmakers boycott vote

Iraq’s parliament approved a long-delayed budget on Saturday, the first since declaring victory over Islamic State after three years of…
Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death over IS ties
Middle East

Iraq sentences 16 Turkish women to death over IS ties

A court in Iraq sentenced 16 Turkish women to death on Sunday after they were found guilty of belonging to…
Cyprus to Egypt gas pipeline deal to be signed: Petroleum Minister
Egypt

Cyprus to Egypt gas pipeline deal to be signed: Petroleum Minister

Minister of Petroleum Tarek al-Mulla declared that before mid-2018, there will be a signing of an agreement with the European…
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