Leaders in Kirkuk, Iraq's second largest oil producing province, cautiously optimistic about plan to increase redistribution of wealth to locals.
Politics
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In the infancy of Iraq's next government, voters appeared to have picked current prime minister Maliki and former premier Allawi.
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Election Day at a polling center in the heart of Baghdad's dangerous Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya reveals telling currents.
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Any of these candidates for the oil portfolio in the next government have a massive task in reconstruction and expansion that will make or break the country.
Election unlikely to bring Kurd-Baghdad breakthrough
The issues that have divided Baghdad and the Kurdish region of Iraq will be awaiting the new government after March 7 national elections.
- The dark horse in a blue suit
- 2010 budget boosts oil-producing provinces
- Chaos looms over elections
- Election ban "lifted" for 500 barred candidates
- Official electoral coalitions list released
Rumaila deal survives another court hearing
Nine-judge high court takes further arguments from attorneys and gives four weeks to receive rebuttals on potential oil industry-shaking lawsuit.
- Iraq in the Crude World: Part 2
- Iraq in the Crude World: Part 1
- Iraq’s Oil Politics: Where Agreement Might Be Found
- Oil workers protest in Basra
- Ten deals makes a happy minister
