BAGHDAD: At least 16 near-simultaneous explosions struck cities and towns across Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 200, despite a massive security clampdown ahead of next week's Arab League summit.
It was Iraq's (...)
BAGHDAD: The number of civilians killed by violence in Iraq dropped to 110 in September from 155 in August, the second lowest toll so far for 2011, according to health ministry figures released late on Saturday.
In May this year 102 civilians (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's budget deficit for 2011, now expected to reach $13.6 billion, would be eliminated if oil prices stay at their current levels, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday.
The budget remains subject to negotiations between (...)
BAGHDAD: War-torn Iraq is expected to attract more overseas investment this year after foreigners were net buyers on its stock exchange in 2010, snapping up $53 million worth of shares, the market's head said on
Sunday.
Taha A. Abdulsalam, chief (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq has been unable, due to US sanctions, to pay Iran millions of dollars owed for electricity, an Iraqi official said, potentially damaging its efforts to supply enough power to a population suffering chronic shortages.
Iraq imports (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials proposed a 2011 budget based on a $73-per-barrel oil price and exports of 2.3 million barrels a day, an oil ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
The export figure includes 150,000 bpd from the semi-autonomous Kurdish (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's investment climate is getting better but foreign investors are awaiting the passage of national industry and consumer protection laws to further improve the environment, the Iraq chief of French cement maker Lafarge said.
"I think (...)
BAGHDAD: On a scorching summer day in Baghdad, Qassim Dakheel squats in his yard and looks anxiously at his water hose, waiting for the water to flow.
In Dakheel's poor neighborhood, the International Committee of the Red Cross delivers 140,000 (...)