Architect designs five bridges that could house 53,000 families over the River Tigris using 3D printers and debris from buildings ISIS destroyed
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Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s authorities said Sunday that tourism activity in the autonomous region has been brought to a total halt coinciding with border closures and air embargos imposed over th...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/10/11/30888/kurdistan-says-baghdad-sanctions-paralyzed-tourism.aspx
The Iraqi government estimated Wednesday the country’s population growth to have reached 40 million until 2017, including Kurdistan Region areas.
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/10/11/30887/iraq-estimates-population-growth-to-40-mln-in-2017.aspx
Iraq will reopen an old crude oil pipeline to Turkey which bypasses one operated by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the oil ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Iraq's government is demanding Kurdish-based that cellular network operators relocate their headquarters to Baghdad.
The welfare of stray cats and dogs roaming Iraq’s capital Baghdad is far from a priority for most residents after years of bloodshed and insecurity.
After three years of forced truancy due to the Daesh group's seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul, teenager Ali Salem waited nervously outside school to sit an English exam.
The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) currency auction on October 8 registered $159,409,405 in sales, a 0.57% volume increase from the US $158,513,357 sold by Iraqi Dinar, credit and transfer at the pre...
Saudi Arabia’s trade minister will visit Iraq in the coming days as the kingdom plans to partake in a Baghdad exhibition, the Iraqi ambassador in the kingdom said.
Baghdad government calls on Turkey and Iran to close their borders with the KRG to “confront a common threat”
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/10/08/30874/iraq-calls-on-turkey-iran-to-seal-borders-with-krg.aspx
According to a report, Norway-based Hexagon Composites' subsidiary Hexagon Ragasco has received a new order for LPG cylinders from Iraq’s Gas Filling Company (GFC) worth around $15 million.
Oil import from Iraq has risen to 31.5% for India in July from a month ago, shipping data showed, allowing the country to retain the top supplier spot for the fourth consecutive month amid declin...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/08/14/30868/indian-import-for-iraqi-oil-increased-in-july.aspx
Along with the United Arab Emirates and Kazakhstan, Iraq has declared commitment to a global pact to cut crude oil output at a meeting with industry officials in Abu Dhabi.
On a press meeting, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the referendum that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) plans to hold in northern Iraq in "not constitutional."
UK-based oilfield services company Petrofac has secured a new contract and the extension of an existing deal to provide engineering services for two international oil companies (IOCs) in Iraq, wi...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/08/09/30866/100m-contract-awarded-to-petrofac-in-iraq.aspx
Estonian-developed ride-hailing app Taxify launched its platform in Baghdad, Iraq on Thursday, with hundreds of drivers already signed up and ready to accept rides.
On last Tuesday, oil prices rose slightly as Saudi exports fell and solid demand soaked up some of what is seen as an oversupplied market, but Ecuador's decision to opt out of an OPEC-led supply ...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/07/22/30855/amidst-low-saudi-exports-oil-goes-high-on-demand.aspx
On coming 25th September, 2017, the Kurdistan Regional Government will hold a referendum on independence for the region.
Together Iraq and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for setting up joint industrial zones.
A contract has been bagged by Baker Hughes from Iraqi government for developing advanced solutions for flare gas at the Nassiriya and Al Gharraf oilfields using its modular gas processing technol...
A project of constructing 3,812 houses in the Southeastern Maysan governorate has been approved by Iraq.
In Baghdad, Iraqis recall first anniversary of devastating ‘Karrada bombing’ that killed more than 300 people. This was the deadliest attack on the country since 2003. In one year, much of th...
As the initial phase of the new Karbala International Airport (KIA) becomes operational, a major addition to the Middle East’s portfolio of airports will appear as early as 2018. The airport wi...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/07/07/30852/karbala-airport-to-open-up-for-iraq.aspx
On last Sunday, Iraq’s oil marketing company stated that the country exported 592.378 million barrels of petroleum during the first half of 2017.
In Canada, a court has issued a warrant for the seizure of hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil reportedly originating from the Kurdistan Region in a tanker recently seen off North America's e...
Amidst airstrikes on the last pockets of territory held by the Islamic State group in Mosul, hundreds of civilians are fleeing. A large portion of them are badly injured and obviously they requir...
As Mosul is liberated from IS ‘caliphate’, rumors have emerged in social media that end of ISIS is also nearing at Syria.
On last week, State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert described the referendum on Kurdish independence as “an internal Iraqi matter.” This has come up as a clear indication that the stan...
After a long time of rising flaring in Iraq, political unrest in the country causes major damages in the initiative. However, with new investment, things are getting improved further. Senior gove...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/07/02/30843/antiflaring-programs-are-fired-up-by-iraq.aspx
After eight month long warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group’s de facto capital ...
Militants of Islamic States (IS) have admitted that defeat in the city of Mosul during sermons that also revived suspicions regarding the death of the group’s supreme leader.
About three years earlier, 800 jihadist fighters in northern Iraq were poised to become new global threats. Having taken over Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, the extremists proclaimed the birt...
From the field owned by the central government in Baghdad, oil export for Iraq is at around 3.27 million barrels per day (bpd) so far in June. Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi had disclosed this data...
It was 2014, when ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stood in the pulpit of the iconic 12th-century al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, and delivered a now-infamous sermon declaring the creation of a ne...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/06/29/30837/842-years-old-mosque-in-iraq-blew-up-by-isis.aspx
Situation in Iraq is at critical stage. The government security forces, backed by United States and its coalition partners, have successfully freed the territories that were occupied by IS milita...
Iraqis on Twitter and Facebook circulated pictures of Iraqi state television, which announced the entry of Iraqi forces in the area of Al-Nouri Mosque and the destroyed Hadba Manara, which transf...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/06/29/30839/iraqis-celebrate-the-fall-of-isis.aspx
As diplomatic clash emerges between OPEC member, specifically between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, earlier gains of oil has erased out. Futures slipped 0.6% in New York, erasing an earlier gain of 1.6...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/06/14/30830/oil-slides-due-to-gulf-diplomatic-crisis.aspx
In 2017, Genel Energy’s Taq Taq oilfield has seen falling output. However, the rate of decline has slowed down of late.
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/06/14/30831/output-falling-at-taq-taq-oilfield-said-genel.aspx
The Iraqi authorities and an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team reached a staff-level agreement on the second review of the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) that was approved by the IMF Executive B...
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) is planning to open a trade route with Iraq.
For new project in Iraqi Kurdistan, Gazprom Neft has started discussions. Chief Executive Officer of the Russian oil major, Alexander Dyukov, has revealed this information.
Islamic state’s defeat in Iraq is a good thing for Iraq without any doubt. The country can now focus on other issues that have made it a financially crippling nation. For Iraq, the long term te...
Despite of growth in oil production since 2009, water constraints, midstream infrastructure woes, contract terms and other aboveground factors have hindered Iraq’s ability to hit production tar...
Dr Fouad Kadhim Shati Al Musawi, Deputy Minister for Ministry of Higher Education and Science and Technology, Iraq, and Mr Dazhu Yang, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of T...
The central bank of Iraq has decided to open two branches in Erbil and Sulaimani next month after a year of talks with the Kurdish government.
The head of the OPEC member's oil marketer SOMO said that Iraq may look at hedging part of its crude oil production as a way to protect government revenue against the risk of oil price volatility...
http://iraqdirectory.com/en/2017/06/01/30811/iraq-plans-for-hedging-crude-production.aspx
By 10th of June 2017, Iraqi forces hope to eliminate Islamic state militants from Mosul of Iraq. After three years’ reign of IS in this second largest city of Iraq, the group is finally going t...
Permission for building an oil refinery has been given by the Iraqi government in Kirkuk. The project value shall be around $5 billion.
Last week a horrific suicide attack on a pop concert in Britain had shocked the world. This incident received a lot of media attention, though increase in violence in other regions of the world l...
All flights from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports have been canceled by British Airways. It said that the organization was having massive IT failure around the world. However, it has not ...