The dispute between Baghdad and Iraq’s Kurds over the oil sector deepens, Steve Negus and Dino Mahtani report in the Financial Times.
Security around Iraq’s northern pipeline has been sustained enough in recent months to boost oil exports to near 2 million barrels per day, reports Thompson Financial news.
Baker Botts Cuts an Iraqi Oil Deal — and Draws a Backlash, Daphne Eviatar reports in The American Lawyer, and both the U.S. and Iraqi governments are annoyed by a Baker oil deal in Kurdistan.
Tensions between Turkey and Iraq’s oil-rich Kurdish north have eased, IraqSlogger reports.
Iran and the United States, both arch enemies and allies, to meet on Iraq security, Alissa J. Rubin reports in The New York Times. Despite all the bluster, the U.S. and Iran both support the same political parties in Iraq.
Though more than 4 million Iraqis have been displaced, the Council on Foreign Relations has a new report on those Iraqis who are returning, due to the increase in security. Warning: it may be a tad too cheery, but a good analysis nonetheless.
Toward National Reconciliation or a Warlord State in Iraq?, by Jim Lobe for Inter Press Service.
The Iraq Press Roundup by UPI’s Hiba Dawood.
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