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Mideast tensions

US preparing to partially evacuate Iraq embassy over regional security risks

Mideast tensions

The forefront the US embassy complex in Baghdad

US preparing to partially evacuate Iraq embassy over regional security risks

The forefront the US embassy complex in Baghdad

Iraq's oil industry

A tougher stance from Baghdad

Iraq holds Kurdish govt legally responsible for continued oil smuggling

Iraq's oil industry

Iraqi oil minister Hayan Abdel-Ghani

Iraq oil ministry says US firms’ direct deals with Kurdistan violate constitution

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Haitham El-Zobaidi, a man who left a huge fingerprint in the media across the Arab world

Haitham El-Zobaidi, CEO of Al Arab Publishing House, has died aged 61

Climate Change

The number of buffalo in Iraq has fallen since 2015 from 150,000 to fewer than 65,000

Droughts in Iraq endanger buffalo and farmers' livelihoods

Iraq-Kuwait border

The land border between the two was demarcated by the UN in 1993

GCC, US call for demarcation of Kuwaiti-Iraqi maritime borders

Iraq Unrest

The dispute centres on a building in Kirkuk that was once the headquarters for the Kurdistan Democratic Party

Iraqi security forces deploy in restive Kirkuk

Stephen Troell

Troell was killed during a botched attempt to kidnap him in November

Iranian man, four Iraqis jailed for life for killing US citizen in Baghdad

Iraq Unrest

Khor Mor gas field

Rockets fired at Khor Mor gas field in Iraq

War on Terror

The talks between the two leaders come after three French soldiers were recently killed while on operation in Iraq

French President held phone call with Iraq PM

Iraq's central bank

Iraqi central bank (CBI) Governor Ali Al-Allaq

Central bank governor says Iraq set in 'battle' against dollar smugglers

Healthcare

The batch had higher than acceptable limit of contaminants diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol

WHO flags contaminated India-made syrup in Iraq

Social Media

Telegram app

Iraq blocks Telegram app

Koran

Demonstrations have raged across Iran and Iraq after Denmark and Sweden allowed the burning of the Koran

Iraq condemns burning of Koran in Copenhagen

Iraqi Protests

A risk of further protests in coming days

German defence minister cancels Iraq trip over anti-Islam protests

Iraqi Kurdistan

Mohammed Mirza Sindi was previously a senior officer in the Parastin intelligence agency

Former Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official killed in car explosion

Koran

Tensions flared between Iraq and Sweden over the Stockholm protest

Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over planned Koran burning

US sanctions on Iran

The US dollar

US sanctions 14 Iraqi banks

Tourism

Iraq's tourism sector remains heavily underdeveloped

Tourists brave Iraq’s fragile stability to discover its wonders

Iraq's oil industry

Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs and Minister of Oil, Hayan Abdul Ghani Al-Swad and Patrick Pouyanne, Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies

Iraq, TotalEnergies sign $27 billion deal for energy projects

Iraq's oil industry

Iraq's current oil production capacity stands at 5.4 million barrels per day

Iraq aims to boost oil output capacity

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