Iraq is losing crucial knowledge about water management as marshland depletion is altering the lifestyle of local women, a paper has warned. The indigenous people of the Hammar Marshes, called Ma’dan, hold a treasure trove of traditional knowledge and skills that help with water management, medicine and sustainable farming, a study found. In Ma’dan tradition, women are the preservers of such knowledge […]
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In the Marshlands, ‘Another Face of Iraq’
After 18 months covering the battle against Islamic State fighters in northern Iraq, Emilienne Malfatto felt compelled to show a less-violent side of the war-torn nation. And she found one in Chibayish, a small district in the Mesopotamian marshes. “When you say ‘Iraq,’ people just think war: the two wars in Baghdad or bombings,” Ms. Malfatto […]
Turkey, Kurds and the Iraq oil hype…
Plus: *Brits' new Basra economic chief acknowledges concern over denationalization of natural resources *KRG Pres. Massoud Barzani's Baghdad beef *Baiji-Baghdad-Anbar railway reconstruction begins *Much, much more... Fears continue, as does the Turkish invasion into northern Iraq, that the latter will cut supplies of oil in Iraq, thus buoying the price of oil. While Agence France-Presse […]
Pentagon report: Iraq oil law, related laws stuck; Progress in oil and electricity sectors not necessarily sustainable…
A Pentagon report says four key oil-related laws in Iraq are "stalled" in political gridlock while gains in oil and power production could be lost, Ben Lando reports for United Press International. The quarterly report to Congress, "Measuring Security and Stability in Iraq," released Tuesday, said the law commonly known as the oil law is […]
Fighting in Iraq’s oil capital Basra isn’t the first bloodshed between varying political and armed groups but may be the decisive battle for control over the oil sector, local government and the fate of the province.
The violence that has killed dozens and injured hundreds since Tuesday is billed as Iraq's military against "criminals, terrorist forces and outlaws," in the words of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who this week launched an Iraqi Security Forces offensive into Basra, Ben Lando reports for United Press International. But political parties and their militias […]
U.S. Congress to Iraq: Pay our war expenses with your oil revenue
Iraqis would be forced to pay for U.S. efforts in their country directly or via loans from the United States if any of at least five similar pieces of legislation introduced on Capitol Hill this month is approved. This comes as Americans deal with -- and politicians respond to -- an unpopular and expensive war, […]
Iraq Oil Ministry waiting on Big Oil to submit oil deal proposals…
Plus: *Iraq oil production drops in April *Companies with KRG deals see boost *Oil pipeline security contract under fraud scrutiny *Iraq Press Roundup *Turkish-Iraq relations improve on Kurd meetings *Much, much more… Iraq has asked major international oil companies to submit their final contract proposals to boost production at the country’s largest oil fields after […]
Kirkuk oil exports resume following debt payment to Turkey
Turkey restarted loadings of halted Iraqi oil exports on Tuesday after Iraq paid $50 million of a total $100 million debt, a senior source from the state pipeline company Botas told Reuters. An Iraq oil ministry official had said earlier Iraq's Kirkuk oil exports to Turkey had been halted after a Turkish court ordered the […]
State Dept readies for massive Iraq ops
The State Department is racing against an end-of-year deadline to take over Iraq operations from the U.S. military, throwing together buildings and marshaling contractors in its biggest overseas operation since the effort to rebuild Europe after World War II, Mary Beth Sheridan and Dan Zak report for The Washington Post. Attention in Washington and Baghdad […]
Iraq oil revenue audit to be handed over to all-Iraqi team
Plus: *Oil law back in Parliament *New wells and other work to boost oil production *However, questions remain *Status Of Forces Agreement update *The Turkey-U.S.-Iraq-Iraqi Kurd dance *Iraq Press Roundup *Much more The U.N.-mandated auditor of Iraq's oil revenue says, despite accounting troubles, it is ready to hand off its work to an all-Iraqi team […]
In western Iraq, a bloody American legacy
In 2006 alone, there were 1,129 total insurgent attacks in Anbar; this year there have been 333. The provincial police force, nonexistent five years ago, employs 32,000 officers, Dan Zak reports for The Washington Post. Those numbers are cited by the Americans now leaving Iraq as cause for optimism. But the Iraqis who will stay […]
Bombings target Iraqi police
Five explosions targeting local police shook the capital within the span of an hour Wednesday morning, two days after Iraq’s leaders requested that at least 5,000 U.S. military trainers remain into 2012 to advise the country’s fledgling security forces, Dan Zak and Asaad Majeed report for the Washington Post. The bombs killed at least 22 […]
Q&A: U.S. International Energy Envoy Carlos Pascual
The U.S. government’s top energy diplomat discusses American efforts to help Iraq rise to the top of the global oil industry.
Australia can achieve nothing in Iraq or Syria
Thousands of miles from here a backward, misogynist, psychotic group of Sunni Muslims is terrorising all within their reach. Quite rightly, the Australian government has not committed a single soldier to counter this evil. I speak of Boko Haram in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. A similarly backward, misogynist, psychotic group of Sunni Muslims called ISIS […]
Situation report: “Iraq first” replaced by momentum in Syria
Same war, new focus. For now. The “Iraq first” model of fighting the Islamic State appears, for the moment, to be a thing of the past. With Russia shipping dozens of fighter planes, helicopters, drones, and tanks to Syria, and a serious rethinking of the U.S.-led train and equip program for Syrian rebels being hashed out at the White House and in […]
Trudeau says Canada will cease airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Canadian troops will now "focus on training and advising local security forces to take their fight directly to ISIL," according to a government statement. Canada says it will still assist with aerial refueling and surveillance activities associated with the airstrikes. The mission, known as Operation IMPACT, started launching combat airstrikes in Nov., 2014. The Canadian Armed Forces say that now, […]
Dispute arises over accusation Iran is stealing Iraq oil from field, involved in smuggling …
Plus: *Oil Majors get special crude instead of cash deal for upcoming oil deals *Iraq-Jordan oil import deal solidifies *Smugglers near Baiji set pipeline ablaze *Oil union leader keys British anti-war tour *Iraq sends delegation to Qatar for gas cooperation *Italy’s Edison, Shell want into Iraq gas too *Turkish op-ed denies cutting N. Iraq’s electricity […]