The invitation applies to big-time developers and financiers, that is. Major industry players the world over will definitely be enticed by the country’s proven reserves of 115 billion barrels, the third largest in the world after Saudi Arabia and Iran. Millions of barrels more lie undiscovered.
Unlike Saudi Arabia and Iran where the respective oil industries [...]

 
This does sound like good news. If the preliminary reports prove accurate, then Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and several secular parties appear to have scored significant gains in Iraq’s provincial elections that took place last Saturday
Mr. Maliki’s Dawa Party drew strong support in Basra and Baghdad, two of Iraq’s largest and most politically important [...]

A prisoner from Basra voting in the provincial Elections taking place in Iraq today. Early voting has been calm apart from Tikrit, where three mortar shells were fired into areas near voting booths. No one was injured. Not bad for a war ravaged country like Iraq. As Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told reporters gathered [...]