By onSeptember 21, 2015 in Banking & Finance Moody’s Investors Service has today assigned a provisional rating of (P)Caa1 to Government of Iraq’s planned USD-bond issuance, with a stable outlook. The … http://flip.it/X6z0h

Chaos is spreading from the Middle East outward as hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees pour into Europe. Over the last decade millions of Iraqis and Syrians have fled their homes. Western … http://flip.it/2HLYr

Information leaked by the US embassy in Baghdad has helped to foil two assassination attempts on Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, a senior Iraqi official has revealed. According to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat … http://flip.it/HYRLq

The controversial fighters targeted Sunni Iraqis just months ago, Human Rights Watch says. WASHINGTON — Mostly Shiite militias who are at the core of the Iraqi government’s strategy to combat the Islamic State group and have worked alongside the U.S. coalition battling that group detained hundre… http://flip.it/bXpFH

Many in the Arab world must look at Iraq’s prime minister and wonder how he sleeps at night. With the state imploding, falling oil prices, industrial-scale corruption, not to mention vast chunks of … http://flip.it/z4F8U

A ruling by a US federal court is a setback for the Kurdistan Regional Government A US federal court dealt a setback to efforts by Iraq’s self-governing Kurds to sell Iraqi crude oil in the US, … http://flip.it/oU6Lq

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military has announced an agreement on “security and intelligence cooperation” with Russia, Iran and Syria to help combat the Islamic State group. In a statement released Sunday, Iraq says the coordination will “help and cooperate in collecting information about the terro… http://flip.it/Rfsag BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi military has announced

The only person Henry Kissinger flattered more than President Richard Nixon was Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. In the early 1970s, the Shah, sitting atop an enormous reserve of increasingly … http://flip.it/JS4sV

WASHINGTON (AP) — A summer of stalemate in the effort to reclaim the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, despite U.S.-backed Iraqi troops vastly outnumbering Islamic State fighters, calls into question not only Iraq’s ability to win a test of wills over key territory but also the future direction… http://flip.it/54ByB

Jaafari, calls for the establishment of an international fund to support Iraq http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_cdepth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ar&tl=en&u=http://samabaghdad.org/news.php%3FNewsID%3D10765&usg=ALkJrhiDZBbPN1J41jR2brctNp4sG0qorw Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Sunday, the European Union a greater role in supporting Iraq bayonet against “Daash”, and while pointing to the importance of establishing an international fund to support Iraq, the foreign policy of the European Union represented by Federica Mgrena