Iraq's central bank announced that domestic debt had increased in 2024 due to a decline in foreign reserves, Shafaq News reported on March 31. The central bank's net foreign reserves for 2024 amounted ...

By looking at the shift in the balance of power, the author explains the potential geopolitical risk if Iraq walks away from ...

Globally, the climate crisis is also a human rights crisis. Dealing with environmental degradation and the climate crisis in ...

Amir Yaron warns about canceling tax hikes imposed on the public though state revenues have grown; reminds lawmakers that ...

BP said it received final approval from the Iraqi government for the redevelopment of the giant Kirkuk oil fields, with an ...

When Turkey jailed Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest rival at the weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets. Notably less vocal were the country’s Western allies.

Aussie-born engineer Robert Pether has been held for the last four years on trumped up fraud charges in Baghdad ...

Writer and photojournalist Scott Wallace, who focused on immigration, police and special projects at the O-D from 1997 to ...

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The Nigerian Senate has announced the China Development Bank as the new financier for the Kaduna-Kano rail modernization project, signaling the project’s path to completion. This change follows the ...

U.S. forces, in cooperation with Iraqi intelligence and security forces, killed a senior leader of the Islamic State in a Thursday airstrike in Iraq, U.S. Central Command said late Friday.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said it conducted a "precision airstrike" in Iraq's western Al Anbar province, which killed "one of the most important" IS members on Thursday. Rifai was the head ...