IRAQI DINAR POLITICS & ECONOMY

Mazhar Saleh: Iraqi banking reform needs to enhance transparency and governance

Mazhar Saleh: Iraqi banking reform needs to enhance transparency and governance

2025/02/22

The Prime Minister’s Advisor for Economic Affairs, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, confirmed today, Saturday, that banking reform in Iraq requires enhancing transparency and governance in the banking sector.
Saleh said in a statement to {Al Furat News} agency, “The operations carried out by Read more…

Mr. Al-Hakim: Iraq is witnessing unprecedented stability and openness to everyone

Mr. Al-Hakim: Iraq is witnessing unprecedented stability and openness to everyone

2025/02/22

The head of the National State Forces Alliance, Mr. Ammar Al Hakim, confirmed today, Saturday, that Iraq today is experiencing an unprecedented state of security, political and social stability, noting that this stability represents a great achievement Read more…

Economist: Labor market stability depends on developing the private sector in Iraq

Economist: Labor market stability depends on developing the private sector in Iraq

2-22-2025

Al-Maalouma / Baghdad ..
The researcher and specialist in financial and banking affairs, Mustafa Hantoush, confirmed today, Saturday, that the stability of the labor market depends on the development of the private sector in Iraq.
Hantoush said in a statement to / Al-Maalouma / agency, that “the Iraqi state is able to Read more…

Parliamentary Committee: Lawsuit against the Prime Minister’s Office for Delaying Budget Schedules

Parliamentary Committee: Lawsuit against the Prime Minister’s Office for Delaying Budget Schedules

2-22-2025

Information / Special..
Member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Hadi Al-Salami, revealed today, Saturday, that a lawsuit has been filed against the Prime Minister’s Office due to its delay in sending the budget tables, stressing that this delay is a serious legal and constitutional Read more…

Parliamentarian: The region still refuses to export oil through SOMO

Parliamentarian: The region still refuses to export oil through SOMO

2-22-2025

Al-Maalouma / Special..
Member of the Parliamentary Oil and Gas Committee, Ali Saadoun, confirmed today, Saturday, that the Kurdistan Region categorically opposes the export of oil through the national company SOMO, thus bypassing the amendment approved Read more…

Baghdad announces completion of procedures to resume Kurdistan oil exports and directs a request to Erbil

Baghdad announces completion of procedures to resume Kurdistan oil exports and directs a request to Erbil

2025-02-22 06:34

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Ministry of Oil announced, on Saturday, the completion of procedures to resume the export of oil produced in the Kurdistan Region, calling on the regional authorities to hand over the quantities produced from the operating fields to Read more…

Deputy Speaker of Parliament: America may issue new political and economic decisions related to Iraq

Deputy Speaker of Parliament: America may issue new political and economic decisions related to Iraq

2025-02-22 01:37

Shafaq News/ Shakhwan Abdullah, Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, stated on Saturday that the administration of US President Donald Trump may issue new political and economic decisions related to Iraq.

This came in a speech he delivered during a scientific conference Read more…

During his meeting with the President of the Region… Al-Sudani calls for accelerating the resumption of Kurdistan’s oil production and export

During his meeting with the President of the Region… Al-Sudani calls for accelerating the resumption of Kurdistan’s oil production and export

2025-02-22 01:46

Shafaq News/ Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani stressed, during his meeting today, Saturday, with the President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, the need to expedite the resumption of the production and export of Kurdistan oil through Read more…

Al-Sadr Movement responds to Al-Maliki: We will not participate in any government that has a framework

Al-Sadr Movement responds to Al-Maliki: We will not participate in any government that has a framework

2025-02-22 06:29

Shafaq News/ The National Shiite Movement (formerly the Sadrist Movement), led by Muqtada al-Sadr, responded on Saturday to the statements of the head of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, in which he said that the Coordination Framework will remain present in the next Iraqi government, even if Read more…

Iraq reveals its official position on threats of imposing sanctions due to Kurdistan Region’s oil exports

Iraq reveals its official position on threats of imposing sanctions due to Kurdistan Region’s oil exports

2025-02-22

The Iraqi government denied, on Saturday, the veracity of media reports that circulated American threats to impose sanctions on Iraq in the event that oil exports from the Kurdistan Region are not resumed. Farhad Alaeddin, the foreign affairs advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister, confirmed in a statement to Reuters that “there is no truth to the reports alleging American threats to impose sanctions Read more…

Warning of “Canadian imports”: Most cars arriving in Iraq are stolen

Warning of “Canadian imports”: Most cars arriving in Iraq are stolen

2025-02-21 07:38

Shafaq News/ The Canadian newspaper “Hamilton Inspector” reported on Thursday that the police uncovered a large-scale criminal scheme and arrested 8 people involved in it, which included the theft and smuggling of hundreds of luxury cars from the city of Hamilton in Ontario province, many of which are suspected to have gone to Iraq Read more…

Trump gives Baghdad a choice: Export Kurdistan’s oil or face sanctions like Iran

Trump gives Baghdad a choice: Export Kurdistan’s oil or face sanctions like Iran

2025-02-21 06:53

Shafaq News/ Reuters revealed, on Friday, details of US pressure exerted by the administration of President Donald Trump on the Iraqi government, in order to expedite the resumption of the export of oil from the Kurdistan Region via the Turkish Ceyhan pipeline, or face economic Read more…

New reform plans for the banking sector in Iraq

New reform plans for the banking sector in Iraq

2025/02/21

The Prime Minister’s Advisor for Financial Affairs, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, stressed that achieving a unified vision to study the conditions of banks in Iraq requires the integration of the national banking market within a homogeneous framework aimed at enhancing the stability of the national financial system and Read more…

Iraq ranked 98th globally and 12th in the Arab world in the Soft Power Index for 2025

Iraq ranked 98th globally and 12th in the Arab world in the Soft Power Index for 2025

2025-02-21 04:31

Shafaq News/ Iraq ranked 98th in the world, and 12th in the Arab world, in the Soft Power Index for 2025.

The United States topped the index, while an Arab country was Read more…

Rafidain Bank announces the launch of an electronic system for processing customer transactions electronically

Rafidain Bank announces the launch of an electronic system for processing customer transactions electronically

2025/02/20

Rafidain Bank announced today, Thursday, the launch of a new electronic system called Q System to manage and organize customer waiting inside its branches. This system aims to reduce waiting periods and improve customer experience by arranging priorities in providing service.
The General Manager of Rafidain Bank said Read more…

Mysterious alert at the American Harir base in Erbil and sudden closure of entrances

Mysterious alert at the American Harir base in Erbil and sudden closure of entrances

2-20-2025

Information/ Erbil…
A security source revealed, on Thursday, the sudden closure of the Harir base, where US forces are deployed in Erbil, amid an unprecedented security alert.

The source told Al-Maalouma, “The American forces deployed at the Harir base near Erbil closed all the main entrances to the base suddenly and urgently at dawn Read more…

Expert warns of imminent financial crisis in Iraq

Expert warns of imminent financial crisis in Iraq

2-20-2025

Al-Maalouma / Special..
Economic expert Nabil Al-Marsoumi warned today, Thursday, of the turbulent financial situation in Iraq, indicating that the country may face a major financial crisis if global oil prices continue to decline and appropriate economic solutions Read more…

Report reveals the lie of the USAID-funded “Sesame Street Iraq” program

Report reveals the lie of the USAID-funded “Sesame Street Iraq” program

2-20-2025

Information/ Translation …
A report by the American website Snoop revealed, on Thursday, the lie of the Sesame Street Iraq program, which the United States Agency for International Development claimed to fund, as only $473,784 was paid, while the agency claimed to have spent $20 million, which suggests that it was stolen from the American Read more…

Grand Faw Port.. Advanced rates of completion of the container handling yard project

Grand Faw Port.. Advanced rates of completion of the container handling yard project

2025-02-20 02:22

Shafaq News/ The Director General of the General Company for Iraqi Ports, Farhan Al-Fartousi, announced on Thursday that advanced completion rates have been achieved in the container handling yard project, one of the five infrastructure projects in the Grand Faw Port.

Al-Fartousi told Shafak News Agency, “The completion rates of the container Read more…

Nechirvan Barzani receives a “written” thank-you letter from Trump

Nechirvan Barzani receives a “written” thank-you letter from Trump

2025-02-20 06:05

Shafaq News/ The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, received a written message from US President Donald Trump on Thursday.

A statement by the presidency of the region, received by Shafaq News Agency, stated that Trump expressed in his message his thanks Read more…