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A string of suicide car bombings left Baghdad picking up the pieces and shattered its false sense of security, The Iraqi capital was rocked by a numerous car bombings that, were targeted at several government buildings and took the lives of 147 people. Yesterday’s attack is said to be the biggest and the most devastating in the last two years. The [...]

The sorry state of its facilities, a decade of international embargo, successive wars, and the alarming state of its finances today forced Iraq to reopen its oil deposits to foreign capital and expertise. The decision of the government of Nouri al-Maliki to auction ‘service contracts’ for the operation of Iraq’s six largest oil fields and two [...]

Soon after the U.S troops marched out of the streets of Iraq, widespread jubilation and celebration marked the beginning of a sovereign Iraq and its national holiday, the National Sovereignty Day. Throughout the country, people celebrated their new found freedom with fireworks, parades and public gatherings. However, this joyous day was marred with [...]

Since early morning, Indian Standard Time, United States combat forces stationed in Iraq have begun the formal ‘transfer of power’ to the Iraqi authorities, thus giving back control of many major Iraqi cities to its police force and the security forces. At midnight on Monday, the countdown clock being broadcast on Iraqi TV struck zero, thus [...]

When the number of US troops in Iraq would have been reduced according to the agreement signed between the governments of both countries, Iraq will need all the help it can get to pacify itself and implement the agreements between the various tribal groups and religious and political factions. In this light, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki calls [...]

The regional power in Iraq will undergo a radical transformation in the coming weeks. The first results of the provincial elections held on Saturday indicated a huge majority in favor of the bloc led by Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. In contrast, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Alliance, which until now was the main Shia party, did not win in any province. [...]