Iraq News Monitor

(VOI) – The controversial issue of the Mosul Dam has come up to the surface again after reports warned of a possible imminent collapse threa...

Oil, Kurdistan (UPI) -- Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government will announce two more oil deals in coming days as it develops its oil sector w...

Oil (UPI) -- Iraq and Iran may be moving ahead on a cross-river oil pipeline, a move the Iraq ministry has talked about but was further down...

Center for Strategic & International Studies The attached report was prepared with the aid of Gary Langer and the ABC polling unit. It p...

October 30, 2007 Quarterly Report to Congress Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction From SIGIR Observations Although the overal...

Security, Insurgency, Tribal (BBC) - A Sunni faction has killed 18 al-Qaeda militants in an attack on a compound near the Iraqi city of Sama...

Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Interior, Ministry Agency of information and National Investigations General Dept of the Technical Affairs, He...

Security (AP) -- Commanders in Iraq have decided to begin the drawdown of U.S. forces in volatile Diyala province, marking a turning point i...

Region (Al Jazeera) - The head of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) military operations in northern Iraq has told Al Jazeera that the group will...

Religion ,Politics, Tribal (Reuters) - Shi'ite Islamist political parties are imposing strict Islamic rules in the oil-producing souther...

Region (Reuters) - Turkey will defy international pressure on Wednesday and grant its troops permission to enter northern Iraq to crush Kurd...

Region (Gulf News) - An Iraqi Kurdish minister has rejected Turkey's demands to send Iraqi troops from Baghdad to the north of the count...

Politics (Al Jazeera) - The Muqtada al-Sadr bloc has rejected a suggestion made by another Iraqi Shia politician that the country should be...

Region (Al Jazeera) - Turkish government has agreed to ask parliament to approve sending troops into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish se...

Oil, Region (The Guardian) - Oil prices burst through $86 a barrel to reach new highs yesterday on the back of growing energy demand forecas...

US and Iraqi officials are negotiating Baghdad's demand that security company Blackwater USA be expelled from the country within six mon...

Politics (Gulf News) - In a major reconciliatory gesture, a leader from Iraq's largest Shiite party has paid a rare visit to the Sunni A...

Region (AP) -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq warned Thursday that Turkey's threatened incursion into Kurdish regions in the north of th...

U.N. (AP) -- U.N. officials in Iraq stepped up pressure on the United States on Thursday to prosecute any unjustified killings of Iraqi civi...

Insurgency, Politics (AP) -- Six main Iraqi insurgent groups announced the formation of a "political council" aimed at "liber...

(AP) -- The State Department may phase out or limit the use of private security guards in Iraq, which could mean canceling Blackwater USA...

Security (AP) -- Sixty prisoners, 10 of them youths, raised their hands Wednesday and swore to live a peaceful life. In return, U.S. authori...

Region (AP) - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey would not be deterred by the possible consequences of invading Ira...

Politics (RFE/RL) - Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), met with leading members of his party on Oct...

Kurdistan (Al-Zaman) - Turkish companies doing business in northern Iraq have begun to pull out of the Kurdistan region in anticipation of a...

Resource (Center for Strategic and International Studies) - The attached briefing provides an overview of some of the key charts and maps ...

Humanitarian (BBC) - A growing number of Iraqi provinces are refusing entry to internal refugees, the UN refugee agency has warned. The head...

Security (Stratfor) - Iraqi Defense Minister Abd al-Qadir al-Ubaydi met with the Kurdistan Regional Government on Oct. 9 to discuss the crea...

Security (Stratfor) - The Polish Embassy in Iraq has temporarily moved to a building in Baghdad's Green Zone due to safety consideration...

(The Times) - Hundreds of Iraqis who risked their lives working for the British will be given a choice of a cash payment or the chance to li...

(ABC News) - The United States has cemented its position as Iraq's biggest wheat supplier, after locking in an export deal for 700,000 t...

Politics ( Mashriq Newspaper) - 9 OCT - Anbar’s tribal sheikhs are ready to announce a political front. Meanwhile, a leader from an insurge...

(Reuters) - The Iraqi government wants US security firm Blackwater to pay $8 million in compensation to each of the families of 17 people ki...

Kurdistan (PUKmedia news) - Abu Dhabi-based Rotana Hotels said on Tuesday it would develop a $55 million five-star property in Erbil in Iraq...

Security (Voices of Iraq) - Unknown gunmen assassinated the head of the Shiite Endowment in Baghdad's eastern part of Rasafa, Ibrahim Ab...

(Azzaman) - A visit to a women prison in a Baghdad neighborhood has revealed that Iraqi authorities are paying lip service to human rights a...

Security (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi officials Wednesday were investigating yet another shooting of Iraqi civilians by a heavily armed security fi...

Region (Al Jazeera) - Turkey is preparing for a possible incursion into northern Iraq as the government says it is willing to take all nece...

Security (Al Jazeera) - Two suicide lorry bombs, separately targeting a police chief and a tribal leader, have killed at least 22 people in...

(RFE/RL) - A full census will be carried out in the contested oil-rich governorate of Kirkuk in mid-November, said Narmin Uthman, the deputy...

Security A car bomb killed two people near Poland's embassy in Baghdad on Monday, five days after the Polish envoy was wounded in an att...

Security (Reuters) - The Iraqi government on Monday released video confessions from followers of a Shi'ite cult arrested after a major b...

Security (Voices of Iraq) - The U.S. military in Iraq said on Monday it has detained three Iran-backed Shiite militia fighters believed resp...

Politics (Gulf News) - One of Iraq's most famous football stars was sworn in on Monday to replace a lawmaker-turned-insurgent in the lar...

Security The Iraqi government, along with political forces, are following with concern the situation in Basra province, with the withdrawal ...