International oil companies operating in Kurdistan continue to smuggle over 1,000 oil tankers daily amid a pipeline shutdown since March 2023. According to Reuters investigations, this illicit trade routes crude through Iran and Turkey, generating approximately $200 million monthly despite regulatory challenges. Although Kurdistan hasn’t been able to export its
Israel’s role in the Abu Ghraib scandal highlights its influence on U.S. interrogation techniques, with Israeli methods of torture and humiliation being implemented in Iraq, exacerbating regional instability and human rights abuses. Three Palestinian males were taken into custody by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied West Bank hamlet
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, initially depicted as a terrorist leader, may have been instrumentalized by American interests to justify the Iraq invasion and sow internal discord, shaping the region’s volatile dynamics. The most notorious professed opponent of the United States during the so-called War on Terror was the Jordanian jihadist Abu
The Finance Committee of the Iraqi Parliament stated that they are calling to ditch the US dollar for oil trade. To thwart US sanctions on the Iraqi banking system, the Finance Committee of the Iraqi parliament started on January 31st, urging the sale of oil in currencies other than the
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched ballistic missiles against foreign ‘espionage centers’ in Iraq near the US Consulate. In what seems to be a significant uptick from Iran, there have been multiple huge explosions reported overnight (local time) close to the US Consulate in Erbil, Iraq. The attack
China embarks on the construction of 15 new cities in Iraq, with East China Engineering Science and Technology Co., Ltd. and another company securing contracts to build the housing units. According to a Bloomberg story published on December 29, Iraq began construction on 30,000 housing units close to Baghdad on
After Iraq’s Oil Ministry approved Inpex, the big oil corporation of Japan, to sell its share of Iraq’s biggest oil discovery, ‘Block 10’, Russia is set to take control of it for 20 years. Iraq’s Eridu oil field is estimated to have reserves of seven to ten billion barrels based
The plot to throw Donald Trump into Iraqi prisons grows stronger as Supreme Judicial Council President Faiq Zidan, who issued an arrest warrant, is invited by the Department of Justice. According to the U.S. government, the Department of Justice (DOJ) planned to extend a warm welcome to an Iraqi judge
On the French TV channel LCI, US’ John Kerry admitted that the Iraq War was based on a lie but refrained from calling it aggression, as President Bush was never directly accused. A former Vietnam veteran, John Kerry received significant criticism during his failed 2004 presidential run for “being for