http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/16 The latest news about Latest News in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator Two health projects to set up an intensive care center and to rehabilitate a sterility and fertility center at a total cost of nearly $810,000 have been initiated as part of the provincial development projects for the year 2008, an official source... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35801 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:44:00 -0400 An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook the Iraqi provinces of Basra and Missan at an early hour on Thursday morning, causing no damage or casualties, a source from Basra's earthquake monitoring department said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35800 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:00 -0400 Ministry of Trade (MOT) on Thursday said that it woulld increase the quantities of some food stuff distributed in ration card system in the upcoming month to meet rising deamnd for them in the holy month of Ramadan. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35799 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:42:00 -0400 Duhuk's first trading fair has been launched in the Kurdish province in a bad to encourage investment for International domestic companies in an expected booming market. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35798 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:41:00 -0400 Iraq struck $3bn oil services contract with China's state-owned oil firm CNPC, an oil ministry spokesman said on Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35797 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:40:00 -0400 Iraq’s ministry pf Industry and minerals on Thursday announced it offered foundation licenses to about 98 industrial projects in August. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35796 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:40:00 -0400 Iraq’s ministry of laboutr and social affairs on Thursday said it provided 70 job opportunities in Anbar province according to a government statement. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35795 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:39:00 -0400 Demand for the dollar was down in the Central Bank of Iraq's (CBI) auction on Thursday, registering at $78.460 million compared to $110.240 million on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35794 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:00 -0400 The Imam Ali Bridge in Najaf's Kufa city was opened on Thursday in the presence of Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdelmahdi, the Najaf governor and several officials. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35793 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:37:00 -0400 The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) opened its session on Thursday, the last this week, with one contract worth 100,000 shares. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35792 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:36:00 -0400 Iraq’s Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on Thursday called on Kurdistan region's president Masoud Barazani to join an urgent meeting to discuss deployment og Iraqi army in Diala’s disputed town. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35791 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:34:00 -0400 U.S army on Thursday said its troops captured nine al-Qaeda suspects during operations conducted in Baghdad and Diala. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35790 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:32:00 -0400 The U.S. army announced the death of two of its servicemen in two separate incidents in Baghdad,. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35789 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:31:00 -0400 Iraqi army commander on Thursday said central government troops are wrestling control of most of Diala’s disputed town of Khanaqin from Kurdish peshmerga forces. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35788 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:30:00 -0400 Anti-U.S cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Thursday ordered a halt to armed operations by his Mahdi Army militia, blamed by Washington for some of the worst sectarian killings of in Iraq. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35787 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:29:00 -0400 A Kurdish lawmaker on Thursday took on Iraqi government’s decision to send military troops to the disputed town of Khanqeen, considering it a way to politically pressure Kurds. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35786 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:28:00 -0400 Police forces on Thursday arrested an abduction and robbery gang in Diwaniya, just an hour after the gang killed a person and stole his car, a security source said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35785 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:26:00 -0400 Iraqi police forces on Thursday arrested twelve gunmen in Diala province, a security spokesman said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35784 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:25:00 -0400 Police forces on Thursday arrested a wanted man in eastern Nassiriya city and defused a sticky explosive device placed inside a civilian vehicle in the center of the city, a relations and media director from Thi-Qar police said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35783 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:24:00 -0400 A total of 50 unknown bodies have been buried in Diala's Baaquba city, an official source said on Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35782 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:23:00 -0400 British forces stationed in southern Iraq on Thursday warned civilians not to approach the desert areas surrounding Basra International Airport, where it said its troops will conduct heavy artillery training. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35781 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:00 -0400 A joint Iraqi force on Thursday discovered a cache of arms and ammunition in the southwest of Kirkuk city, a local police chief said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35780 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:20:00 -0400 The Iraqi deputy prime minister, Rafe' al-Issawi, on Thursday discussed in Baghdad with the Italian ambassador to Iraq means of boosting mutual relations between the two countries. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35779 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:18:00 -0400 Iraq's top Shiite Cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on Iraqis to register their names at the electoral registration offices in preparation for the upcoming provincial council elections, an official source from the cleric's office said on... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35778 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:16:00 -0400 Eight civilians were killed or wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through a popular market in southern Kirkuk city, a police source said on Thursday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35777 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:15:00 -0400 The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region, Massoud al-Barazani, expressed his surprise at the raid conducted by Iraqi army personnel on Khanaqin district, which he described as a "safe" area. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35776 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:14:00 -0400 Leaders of the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC) discussed recent developments in the political and security situation in the country, in addition to other significant issues during a meeting in Baghdad. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35775 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:12:00 -0400 An Iraqi power expert accused the Electricity Ministry of issuing false figures with regard to electricity output, status of power stations and power imports. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35774 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:32:00 -0400 The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but US and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorisation to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35773 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:31:00 -0400 An Iraqi university president and a top local official in a restive province north of Baghdad are suspected of giving weapons and government cars to Al Qaida in Iraq insurgents, according to arrest reports obtained on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35772 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:30:00 -0400 Revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Wednesday urged Iraqis to register so they can vote in provincial elections planned to be held by early next year. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35771 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:30:00 -0400 Iraq is negotiating a multi-million-dollar loan from Japan to fund water and sewage projects in Baghdad and in the northern Kurdish region, the government said on Wednesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35770 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:29:00 -0400 The Ministry of Electricity has increased its production but the energy did not meet only half rates demanded. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35769 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:21:00 -0400 The Iraqi Ministry of Trade decided to raise the rates of unloading the seeds of wheat, rice arrived at the port of Umm Qasr to hit 10 thousand tons a day. The General Manager of Seeds Trade, Mr. Muthanna Abdul-Jabbar, in a press statement yesterday,... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35768 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:20:00 -0400 The Iraqi government had expressed its willingness to approve selling amounts of oil to Lebanon at preferential rates according to an announcement by Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora during his visit to Baghdad in a step is the second of its kind... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35767 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:19:00 -0400 The Ministry of Transportation is studying the possibility to shuttle a night train from Baghdad to Basra Governorate starting from September of next month, while a German company submitted a proposal to invest in railway line starts from the town... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35766 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:18:00 -0400 The Iraqi Oil Ministry says that oil exports in July inched up to 58.8 million barrels -- a 0.7% increase from the previous month. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35765 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:17:00 -0400 Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa discussed here on Wednesday with the Iraqi Foreign Undersecretary Abdelkareem Hashem preparations for the Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers due to kick off next month. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35764 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:16:00 -0400 Minister of Culture Dr. Riad Na'asan Agha on Wednesday discussed with Iraqi Deputy Minister of Culture Fawzi al-Atroushi and the accompanying delegation ways of enhancing the cultural exchange between the two sisterly countries for the interest of... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35763 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:16:00 -0400 Kurdish troops, Peshmarga, say they lost many men trying to bring security to a volatile, ethnically mixed part of Iraq only to be ordered out by the central government. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35762 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:14:00 -0400 Politicians must sit down at the same table to compromise on and solve their disputes, says an Iraqi army colonel responsible for 5th Brigade operations in Mosul city. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35761 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:13:00 -0400 "The Iraqi army is not in a position to confront Peshmerga forces; Peshmerga forces are far and away stronger than the Iraqi army."- Anwar Hajji Osman, acting Peshmerga Minister http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35760 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:11:00 -0400 Interior Minister, Jawad Bolani, declared that his ministry will execute a huge project to house police force' members throughout Iraq to provide one apartment to each member. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35759 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:09:00 -0400 Trade Ministry said that received consent of 70 foreign companies to participate at International Iraq Fair that would held in Baghdad at November, general director of Iraqi Fairs Company, Sabti Juma'a, said. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35758 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:08:00 -0400 Official delegations will visit soon some regional countries to solve outstanding issues and widening cooperation at all spheres, as Parliament will approve at its next term many important laws, such as oil law, elections and military's retirement. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35757 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:08:00 -0400 Baghdad municipality department tends performing a highest ferris wheel in the world length about 200 meter as apart of (Ein Baghdad) project which would be biggest tourist project in Baghdad and the public area. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35756 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:07:00 -0400 Basra education directorate received 5 schools and Zubair sub district education directorate building within cost of ID 2.200 B, while ready to receives other schools in different areas of the province to raise up with the educational factual and to... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35755 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:06:00 -0400 FAO organization follows UN, to carry out reclamation of the lands besides rehabilitating works in the agricultural lands northern of Faloja sub district. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35754 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:05:00 -0400 Minister of Education Dr. Khadier al-Khazai indicated that the ministry is serious in reading the educational status accurately and objectivity to put the successful solutions to contribute in erecting and upgrade its path. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35753 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:04:00 -0400 The pharmaceutical industries Company has prepared plans to add productivity lines, among them two projects to produce intravenous solutions and antibiotics, while Chemistry Industries Company announced the production of the first batch of Noflic which... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/35752 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:03:00 -0400