http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/24 The latest news about Latest News in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator The results from the general elections indicate that the sectarian equation brought about in the aftermath of the occupation of Baghdad may no longer hold. We have seen Iraqis rallying behind groups which puts national interests above sectarianism. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69315/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:39:00 +0000 Electoral officials say that software problems have delayed the count for this month's general election but some politicians are now alleging fraud. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69314/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:38:00 +0000 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc looked likely to form parliament's single largest grouping Tuesday, after results showed the incumbent had strengthened his hold on key Baghdad province. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69313/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:36:00 +0000 The Iraqi government that is formed following the country's March 7 legislative elections isn't expected to scrap or review the 10 deals Baghdad signed recently with international oil companies to upgrade one of the country's vast oil fields, a senior... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69312/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:35:00 +0000 Sunni areas that boycotted the 2005 elections witnessed wide popular participation in the general election of 7 March. Turnout in Sunni provinces was higher even than in provinces with Shia majorities. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69311/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:34:00 +0000 Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd provides an operational update on the preparations for its 2010 drilling campaign in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ("Kurdistan"). http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69310/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:33:00 +0000 Longford Energy Inc. announces that it has been recently appointed as the Operator of the Chia Surkh Block and plans to commence seismic acquisition during the second quarter of 2010. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69309/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:27:00 +0000 Oil market observers expect no action by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries following their first meeting of 2010 on Wednesday, with Platt's OPEC expert telling Market News International that the cartel remains constrained... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69308/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:00 +0000 An Iraqi Shia group blamed for holding hostage the British IT consultant Peter Moore today denied his claims of torture and abuse and released new video footage of him apparently relaxing in captivity. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69307/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:25:00 +0000 Each night, in a giant base north of Baghdad, a team that moves armies for a living prepares for a mission that will define America's time in Iraq, more than any other act since the invasion seven years ago. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69306/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:23:00 +0000 Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki edged ahead on Sunday in early results of an election Iraqis hoped would end years of sectarian strife, but the tight race indicated long and fraught negotiations to form a government. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69305/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:21:00 +0000 There is one largely unreported aspect of the recently completed Iraqi elections that I find deeply troubling, and that is the fact that polling places were set up across the US providing Iraqi-Americans the opportunity to vote. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69304/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:18:00 +0000 OPEC ministers due to arrive here for their meeting on March 17 say there is no need to change output targets with oil prices above their preferred range, but soft demand is prompting calls to curb overproduction. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69303/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:18:00 +0000 A Kurdish reform group, which chipped away at the dominance of ruling parties in national polls last week, is threatening to split Iraq's Kurdish establishment as it battles with Baghdad over land and oil. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69302/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:13:00 +0000 Iraq will next month invite foreign firms to submit bids for the planned construction of a $6 billion port south of Basra, which together with a new rail system will create a regional transport conduit to rival the Suez Canal, officials say. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69301/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:12:00 +0000 The U.S. military handed over a $107 million prison and nearly 3,000 inmates to the Iraqi government on Monday as it prepares to leave Iraq seven years after ousting Saddam Hussein. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69300/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:11:00 +0000 Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may get first go at forming a government, early election results show, but Sunnis will fume if he cuts out his secular rival Iyad Allawi, the man most of them voted for. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69299/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:09:00 +0000 Premier Nouri al-Maliki’s hopes of retaining his post were given a major boost Monday when updated election results showed a strengthening of his grip on Baghdad, Iraq’s biggest province. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69298/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:54:00 +0000 Federal investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 cases during the past six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions made by some of the Americans involved in the $150billion rebuilding... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69297/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:53:00 +0000 More than 50 corruption cases have been opened in the last six months by U.S. investigators looking into the dealings of Americans involved in the $150 million Iraq reconstruction project. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69296/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:52:00 +0000 Iraq is keen to see China play a bigger role in the reconstruction of the war-torn country, the country's top envoy to Beijing has said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69295/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:51:00 +0000 Iraq is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources, and yet it suffers from a dismal economy with an unemployment rate of up to 18 per cent. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69294/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:49:00 +0000 Iraq-focused oil explorer Gulf Keystone Petroleum on Monday raised £16m in a stopgap share placing to fund drilling costs after the default of its partner in Iraq last week. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69293/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:45:00 +0000 Hungarian oil and gas group MOL has made a discovery in Akri-Bijeel Block in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The testing results are promising, it said in a statement on 10 March, Portfolio Hungary reported. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69292/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:44:00 +0000 The 12-nation group boosted its number of oil and gas rigs by 8.4 percent year on year in January and last month, the biggest two-month gain since June 2007, data from Baker Hughes show. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69291/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:42:00 +0000 The Central Bank of Iraq is planning to rebase the Iraqi dinar but hasn't decided yet on the timing of the move, the bank said in a statement Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69290/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:36:00 +0000 UNDP Iraq is seeking the services of an experienced and reputable international consultant company to provide the required services for the development of an integrated water and sanitation master plan. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69289/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:35:00 +0000 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's bloc looked likely to form parliament's single largest grouping Tuesday, after results showed the incumbent had strengthened his hold on key Baghdad province. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69288/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:34:00 +0000 A Shiite extremist group on Monday discounted claims from its former hostage that he was mistreated, presenting a video taken during his two year captivity showing the Briton exercising and playing with a child. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69287/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:22:00 +0000 The Kurdistan Cabinet announced a period of mourning throughout the Iraqi region on March 16, 2010, as a symbol to recognize the chemical bombing attacks on Halabja in 1988. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69286/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:21:00 +0000 A number of students of the Mosul University’s Faculty of Engineering on Monday staged a demonstration against the arrest of a professor by army forces, according to one of the protest’s organizers. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69285/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:21:00 +0000 The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) index on Monday registered a drop of 2.4% to close at 98 points as rates of shares of 34 out of a total 38 companies that traded in today’s session fell. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69284/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:20:00 +0000 The investment commission in Basra has given an investment permit to establish a shopping complex in the north of the city at a total cost of $3.27 million U.S. dollars. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69283/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:20:00 +0000 The Board of Supreme Audit on Monday said it has released the final account of the Iraqi government for the year 2007 after all amendments had been made to it. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69282/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:19:00 +0000 Omitting zeros from Iraqi currency is a strategic project that has been implemented by Iraqi currency policy since 2007, Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) said on Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69281/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:19:00 +0000 A Turkish company has expressed its willingness to build an iron and steel factory in Basra province and to develop the old state-run factory, an official statement said on Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69280/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:18:00 +0000 Two ships carrying more than 84,000 tons of wheat have arrived at the Umm Qasr Port, the Iraqi Ministry of Trade said on Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69279/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:18:00 +0000 Basra’s port of Abu Falous on Monday received four merchant ships carrying varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69278/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:17:00 +0000 The spokesperson of the information in the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works Jassim Mohammed Salim, said that the ministry will allocate the necessary land to build housing units, called on ministries to expedite the contract with investment... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69275/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:09:00 +0000 An official source from the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, it has instructed the Ministry of Water Resources in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, to study the possibility of measuring the amount of water withdrawn from water... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69274/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:08:00 +0000 Dr. Abdul Sattar Kazem al-Issawi, director of the hospital in Fallujah, denied the news reported by some media about the exposure to the assassination attempt on Monday morning. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69273/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:07:00 +0000 Investment Authority in Babel governorate managed in granting an investment license for a Netherlands firm, whereby the latter undertakes to build 836 housing units in central Hilla, the capital of the governorate. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69272/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:06:00 +0000 Car bomb exploded on Monday morning in city center of Fallujah, killing and injured 23 people as preliminary result. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69271/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:05:00 +0000 scheduled to arrive on Monday to the ports of Basra, a Turkish barge for electricity generation, out of two barges are working to supply the national system of electric power. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69270/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:03:00 +0000 One policeman and two children were wounded in a thermal bomb explosion in western Mosul, according to a security source. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69269/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:01:00 +0000 Security authorities on Monday found a mortar shell and ammunitions in the west of Karbala, a local police chief said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69268/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:58:00 +0000 One civilian was wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in eastern Mosul city. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69267/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:57:00 +0000 A jail’s guard was killed on Monday by unknown gunmen in western Mosul, a police source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69266/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:56:00 +0000 Seven persons, including three policemen, were wounded on Monday when a sticky bomb that had been attached to a civil defense car went off in western Baghdad. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69265/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:55:00 +0000 One civilian was killed on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in central Mosul city. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/69264/refid/RSS-latest-16-03-2010 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:54:00 +0000