Plus: *Iraq Oil Report update delays *Get your copy of the Shell-Iraq gas Heads of Agreement *PetroVietnam renegotiating Saddam-era oil deal *Iraq Human Rights Commission awaits Presidency Council OK *Iraq Oil Report Exclusive: Text of Human Rights Commission law *What is the "Green Zone"? *The Iraq Press Roundup Apologies to readers: over the past week [...]
Update and Perspectives on the Status Of Forces Agreement
Plus: *SOFA negotiations rocky but developing *Iraq Oil Report offers first look at text submitted to Parliament *Kurdistan-Baghdad relations rocky *KRG signs U.N. electricity help *Iraq Oil Ministry wants helicopters *Alive in Baghdad: Sahwa, What Next After Al-Qaeda? *Iraq Press Roundup The Status Of Forces Agreement, or SOFA, is nearing a late-November deadline when Iraq’s [...]
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Basra the battleground for Iraq army effort…
Iraq's Army will target militias in Iraq's oil capital Basra in a last ditch effort to route the growing violence before provincial elections which may take place this fall, Kim Sengupta reports for The Independent. This poses a huge dilemma for citizens and the country. Who exactly of the dozens of militias will the Army [...]
- Gen. Petraeus recruits world’s largest energy companies on behalf of Prime Minister Maliki …
- Basra amidst violence may see major push by previously ineffective Iraqi troops…
- Turkey’s president forces U.S. to choose between it and Iraq’s Kurds over oil-rich Kirkuk and the PKK …
- Kirkuk Oil Battle Heats Up … Oil Funds for Refugees … Lukoil on Talking Terms With Baghdad Again
- Iraq’s oil flowing to Turkey still, but bad signs linger in the north and south of Iraq
Iraqis are left without fuel or electricity …
Plus: *Iraq Oil Ministry, Big Oil to meet in Jordan this week *Deadline to register for upcoming oil tenders delayed *2008 budget delayed, Kurd vs. Arab continues *Iraq Press Roundup *Is the surge working? A worthless question. *and more... You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and [...]
Iraq to join oil revenue transparency pact
Plus: *Oil Minister Shahristani joins PM Maliki’s coalition list *The Green Zone Sit-in *VIDEO: Two-part series on the Surge & Sadr *Operation Hotel California: entering Iraq in 2002 *Iraqi women face increasing threats *All Iraqis in danger with bad water It's an exhausting and complicated process, but Iraq is taking steps to open up its [...]
Interview: Iraq Ambassador to U.N. Hamid al-Bayati
The day after Barack Obama was elected to be the next U.S. president, Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations Hamid al-Bayati called it inspiring. But on the ground in Iraq, Obama really wouldn't be too different from President Bush, he said. In an interview with United Press International’s Ben Lando on the sidelines of an [...]
