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National Politics

Iraqis walk past election campaign posters at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, on April 9, 2014. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi budget stalled until after election season

Key oil revenue disputes are too much to overcome now that campaigning for April 30 national elections has begun.

Ali Hama Salih, known as "The Calculator" for his public questioning of KRG finances, is now a leading politician with the Gorran Movement. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A: The Calculator

IOR talks to Ali Hama Salih, Kurdistan’s popular MP, and a rising star in the opposition Gorran party.

Former Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie at his office in Baghdad on Dec. 23, 2013, sitting in front of a bust from a toppled statue of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein. Around the bust's neck is the actual rope used to hang Hussein. (SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A: Former Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffak al-Rubaie

Top Maliki confidante gives his candid take on Iraq's political landscape, oil disputes and security crisis as national elections loom.

Iraqi Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Turhan Mufti (center) with politicians representing Rifai, looking at a map of the district. The delegation said they presented Mufti with a petition including tens of thousands of signatures to turn the district into a province. (STAFF/Iraq Oil Report)

Two new oil companies, six new provinces

Baghdad expands state oil sector in south and carves out potential new provinces in restive areas in the north where politics are always at play.