March exports strong despite disruptions
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Abadi taps Nazar Numan, a Kurdish geologist, to run the Oil Ministry, and proposes Ali Allawi to once again head the Finance Ministry.
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As a ground offensive pushes slowly toward Mosul and air strikes intensify, IS militants use residents as human shields and step up executions to stifle internal dissent.
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Adil Abd al-Mahdi has left the Oil Ministry and ceded authority to his deputy, as Baghdad braces for PM Abadi's Cabinet overhaul.
Q&A: Ali al-Allaq, governor of the Central Bank of Iraq
The chief of Iraq’s lynchpin financial institution details the measures being used to prop up Iraq’s budget with its currency reserves.
Q&A: Kirkuk Gov. Najmaldin Karim
The province where Iraq's oil industry was born is starting to get paid for oil by the Kurdistan region. Kirkuk's governor explains the new "petrodollar" deal.
Iraq expects imminent pipeline imports of Iran gas
Gas will fuel at least a power plant in Diyala province within weeks, after years of security delays.
Iraqi Cabinet decisions: March 29, 2016
Whenever the media office of the Council of Ministers releases decisions of the Cabinet, Iraq Oil Report publishes a translation from the original Arabic.
UPDATE: Chemical weapons suspected in IS attack near Kirkuk
Several victims were hospitalized with respiratory problems after a barrage of shelling Wednesday morning near key energy infrastructure.
Signs of happier times
Trapped civilians stall Iraqi forces battling ISIS
UK urged to give asylum to 100 women who fled Isis captivity in Iraq
Cleric’s Role Reversal Upends Iraq’s Political Order
ISIS taking over hospitals in Hawija, using human shields against attacks
Kurdish soldiers in Iraqi Army feel comforted on frontline near home
Iraq’s Sadr ends sit-in after PM proposes new ministers
Security clampdown in Baghdad as PM arrives in parliament; expected to announce reforms
