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Iraq to renegotiate Russia arms deal
BAGHDAD – Iraq will renegotiate a massive weapons deal with Russia, a spokesman said Monday, after Baghdad canceled a $4.2 billion agreement that would have made Moscow Iraq’s biggest supplier after the US. The cancelation on account of graft concerns of ...
Iraq effort to reform ends in controversy
An Iraqi woman waits to receive her monthly ration of flour in Baghdad. Armed with a key reform touted by economists but angrily opposed by many voters, Iraq’s government is mired in controversy over its now-withdrawn plans to cancel the ...
Confusion, contradictions over Iraq-Russia arms deal
BAGHDAD – Baghdad canceled a $4.2 billion arms package with Russia Saturday citing graft concerns and instead opted for new talks, ending a deal that would have made Moscow Iraq’s second-biggest arms supplier. In a bizarre sequence, however, the acting defense ...
Iraq needs $1 trillion to rebuild, investment chief says
BAGHDAD – Iraq needs up to $1 trillion (784 million euros) over the next 10 years to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure and battered economy, its investment chief said in an interview. Sami Al-Araji’s remarks come during the Baghdad International Fair, Iraq’s ...
Car bomb attacks kill four in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Three car bombs in towns south of Baghdad killed four people and injured 16 others Thursday, Iraqi police and health officials said. The first bombing took place early in the morning in a residential area of the predominantly ...
Car bomb kills 32 Iraq army recruits
BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded Tuesday at the entrance to an Iraqi army base as potential new recruits were massed at the gate, killing at least 32 people, security and medical officials said, in the deadliest single attack in ...
Iraq signs gas deal with Pakistani company
Pakistan Petroleum chief executive Asim Khan (L) shakes hands with Midland Oil Company director general Dalman Najm Abdullah (R) next to Iraqi Deputy Petroleum Minister Ahmed Al-Shamaa during a deal-signing ceremony in Baghdad, Monday. — AFP BAGHDAD — Iraq has inked ...
Masgoof back on the menu: Iraq’s signature dish returns
BAGHDAD – Abu Shahad digs his fingers into a flame-grilled carp, stuffs them into his mouth and relishes a taste of what is perhaps Iraq’s most beloved dish: masgoof. Thanks to a drop in the once-rampant levels of violence across the ...
Iraq VP gets fourth death sentence
  BAGHDAD – A Baghdad court sentenced vice president Tareq Al-Hashemi, one of Iraq’s top Sunni officials, to a fourth death sentence in absentia Sunday over a foiled car bombing targeting Shiite pilgrims. Hashemi, a prominent critic of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri ...
Saudi prisoners’ lawyers get death threats in Iraq
Thamer Qamqoom Okaz/Saudi Gazette   BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawyers who have taken on Saudi prisoners in Iraq as clients have received death threats, an Iraqi lawyer told Okaz/Saudi Gazette. The lawyer, who was speaking anonymously, has been authorized to defend Saudi prisoners facing execution. He ...
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