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    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over Stockholm protest

      Move follows storming of Sweden’s embassy in Baghdad in show of rage over anticipated burning of a Koran

      A protester holds a copy of the Koran
    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      How Iran will profit from Shell’s Iraqi gas project

      Tehran-based company receives most of the revenues from the power plant used by UK group’s joint venture in Iraq

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      Iraq demands Turkey apologise for drone strike on Syrian Kurdish leader

      Mazloum Abdi, a US ally against Isis, escaped the attack on an airport in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region

      A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces and US soldiers stand bay their armoured vehicles on the outskirts of Rumaylan in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province last month
    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      TotalEnergies
      TotalEnergies strikes deal with Iraq to revive $27bn energy projects

      Gas, oil and solar initiatives had become bogged down in political negotiations

      Technicians work on a gas processing facility near Iraq’s southern port city of Basra
    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      Iraqi authorities reach preliminary deal to resume oil exports to Turkey

      Final agreement expected ‘within days’ to restart flow of crude halted by tribunal decision

      A worker walking past some pipes
    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Stranger in Your Own City — the post-invasion agony of the Iraqi people

      A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Crippling dollar shortage underscores vulnerability of Iraq’s oil-based economy

      Attempts to control a monetary crisis have had unintended consequences for a country struggling to get back on its feet

      Protesters wave a giant Iraqi flag in Baghdad
    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Oil
      Iraq wins landmark case against Turkey over Kurdish oil exports

      Nine-year dispute over region’s energy sales settled by international court

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The tragedy of Iraq, 20 years on

      US-led invasion has become a byword for catastrophic foreign intervention

      Anti-government protesters walk past burning tyres in Basra in 2019, when more than 600 protesters were killed during nationwide demonstrations
    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The photographer who captured the birth of modern Iraq — and what could have been

      Latif al-Ani chronicled his country’s transition to modernity. 20 years after the US invasion, his images are painful but necessary viewing

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      The Iraq war left western societies unchanged

      Twenty years on, the political and cultural legacy of a divisive war is minimal

      A US marine in Safwan, Iraq, pulls down a poster of Saddam Hussein during the 2003 invasion
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Travel
      Iraq, 20 years on

      On the anniversary of the US-led invasion, tour operators are returning to the country and — despite official warnings — their trips are selling out

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Iraq sacks central bank governor as dinar slides in value

      Former governor Ali Mohsen al-Allaq returns as Baghdad struggles with a lack of dollars

      Ali Mohsen al-Allaq, the previous incumbent, was named as acting governor
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

      Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

      A US marine carries a torn-down poster of Saddam Hussein in the suburbs of south-east Baghdad in 2003
    • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iran targets Kurds sheltering in Iraq: ‘We’re being used as a scapegoat’

      Tehran seeks to blame dissident groups across the border for anti-government protests

      A Kurdish fighter inspects the damage following an Iranian attack on Koye, northern Iraq, last month
    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Disrupted Times
      Verdicts roll in on Autumn Statement: no jam today and no jam tomorrow

      COP27 goes to the wire, Iraq’s ‘heist of the century’, Sonic the Hedgehog creator arrested

      Commuters walk on London Bridge
    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Crypto broker Genesis halts withdrawals

      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

      Bumper fraud implicates Baghdad elite and poses challenge for new prime minister

      Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iraq names new leaders and breaks year-long political deadlock

      Abdul Latif Rashid defeats incumbent Barham Salih and paves way for new government to be formed

      Abdul Latif Rashid takes his oath of office in front of Iraqi legislators in Baghdad on Thursday
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      US citizen killed in Iranian attack in northern Iraq

      Tehran accuses dissidents in neighbouring country of fanning protests

      A video grab from Iranian military footage reportedly showing a missile launch from Iran towards Sulaimaniya in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Thursday
    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Travel
      Michael Palin: back on the road at 78 — and bound for Baghdad

      With his wanderlust undiminished at the age of 78, the former Python sets out across Iraq

      Michael Palin sits in a cafe with two glasses on the table in front of him
    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Cleric’s supporters withdraw from Baghdad’s green zone after 30 die in unrest

      Moqtada al-Sadr apologises to Iraqis and tells followers to pull back from heavily fortified zone

      Supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr during clashes with Iraqi security forces in Baghdad
    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Deadly protests erupt in Baghdad after Sadr quits

      Several killed in clashes in Iraqi capital’s green zone between supporters of populist Shia cleric and Iran-backed rivals

      Supporters of populist Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr occupy the Republican Palace inside the green zone in Baghdad
    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      Baghdad threatens action against international buyers of Kurdish oil

      Move is latest in escalating row over shipments from semi-autonomous region

      A worker adjusts a valve of an oil pipe at Taq Taq oil field in Arbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region
    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      Iraq paralysed by government stand-off as Moqtada al-Sadr unleashes protest

      Government dysfunction means Opec’s second-largest oil producer is failing to benefit from high crude prices

      Supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Iraq’s parliament building on Wednesday
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