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The inaugural edition of the Iraq Oil Report

Iraq’s Reserves Rush Hundreds of potential investors, some of the biggest oil firms in the world, flock to Dubai for access to the reserves. I was there to watch the party: The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women […]

The Kuwaiti tab

Post-Saddam, Iraq’s war with Kuwait is far from over.

Laid to rest

U.S. official tasked with advising Iraq Electricity Ministry, killed in Fallujah IED, returns to family in Chicago.

Iraqi oil politics

Disputes over how oil sector should be managed, controlled will culminate in Parliament questioning of oil minister.

Oil law progress?

MP says law coming through pipeline soon, would be required to sign oil deals.

Shelling out Iraq’s gas

Controversial pact between Iraq and Shell moving along, with Parliament requesting involvement.

Lingering in the pipeline

Oil exports from northern fields doesn’t mean a deal on KRG oil contracts, even those exporting now, and a compromise is made more complex by gas deal.

Kurds from Syria eye KRG

Syria's persecuted Kurdish minority see Iraq's Kurdistan region as safe haven.

Iraq: living in hiding

Lawlessness and sectarian violence quickly engulfed Iraq after the fall of Saddam, leaving women vulnerable.

Follow the money

Who gets the money as Iraqi Kurdistan starts crude exports?

Heads in the sand

The fragility of Sunni incorporation into Iraqi governance could have been headed off earlier in the war.