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Baghdad ends air blockade on Iraqi Kurdistan
Middle East
March 15, 2018
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
March 15, 2018
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
March 14, 2018
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
March 11, 2018
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
March 8, 2018
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
March 8, 2018
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
March 7, 2018
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
March 4, 2018
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
February 26, 2018
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
February 23, 2018
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…