IRAQI DINAR POLITICS & ECONOMY

Matisse is visiting Baghdad tomorrow and the goal is to postpone the referendum

Matisse is visiting Baghdad tomorrow and the goal is to postpone the referendum

2017-08-21 at 11:19 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News
Up US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, on Tuesday to Iraq to visit Baghdad and Erbil.
Political sources said that “US Defense Secretary Mattiece will visit Baghdad and Arbil on Tuesday to discuss the latest developments in the war against da’ash and coordination between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga forces and discuss the referendum in the Kurdistan Read more…

US Embassy explodes: Iraqi army moved to Tal Afar with “broken mechanisms”!

US Embassy explodes: Iraqi army moved to Tal Afar with “broken mechanisms”!

Monday, August 21, 2017 at 09: 37 am

Baghdad / Sky Press: m

The New York Times reported Monday that the death toll of the security forces in the 9-month-old Mosul reconstruction battle ended on July 10, noting that the equipment of the military units was also badly damaged by the battle.

“About 1,400 Iraqi soldiers were killed in the battle to restore Mosul and another 7,000 wounded,” the newspaper quoted officials at the US embassy in Baghdad as saying.

“The military equipment of the Iraqi army has been badly damaged Read more…

Iraq on the threshold of a historic change in the sale of oil

Iraq on the threshold of a historic change in the sale of oil

2017/8/21 12:20

The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) has informed its customers that it intends to change the benchmark price of Basrah crude in Asia to the price of Omani crude oil futures on the Dubai Mercantile Exchange from the average price of Dubai and Oman crude on the Platts platform, Of January 2018.
The proposed change represents a major shift from OPEC’s second- Read more…

URGENT The Federal Court issues a decision on the appeal against some articles of the budget law

URGENT The Federal Court issues a decision on the appeal against some articles of the budget law

2017/8/21 14:26

(Baghdad: Al Furat News) The Federal Supreme Court issued on Monday, a decision on the appeal against some articles of the Federal Budget Law for the current year.
A statement issued by the Director of the Information Office of the Federal Supreme Court Ias Samok received the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of today that “the court held a hearing today under the chairmanship of Judge Medhat al – Mahmoud to consider the appeal contained in some articles of the Federal Budget Law No. 44 of 2017.
“The Court decided to rule on the unconstitutionality of articles Read more…

Barzani reveals two options in front of Kurdistan

Barzani reveals two options in front of Kurdistan

2017/8/21 15:54

(Arbil: Euphrates News) The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, said that “all the methods tried with Baghdad.”
In his speech to university students in the Saad Abdullah Hall in the city of Arbil, Barzani added that “the Iraqi constitution provides that the territorial integrity of Iraq linked to the implementation of the Constitution.”
The head of the Kurdistan region that “we have two options, either Read more…

National Alliance reveals a paper solution that will end the differences between Baghdad and Erbil

National Alliance reveals a paper solution that will end the differences between Baghdad and Erbil

Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:37:08

The source revealed the items of the solution to the outstanding problems between the federal government and the Kurdistan region, which will be presented to the Kurdish delegation negotiating tonight evening during their upcoming meeting.

The source said that “after the meeting held last Wednesday, between the National Alliance and the Kurdish negotiating delegation, the two parties agreed to hold a meeting this evening, to provide each party a paper solutions to the outstanding problems Read more…

Barzani: We rejected Washington’s request to postpone the referendum

Barzani: We rejected Washington’s request to postpone the referendum

2017-08-20 at 11:21 (Baghdad time)

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Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani said he would not run in the upcoming elections nor would he nominate any of his relatives for the presidency , while he said he had rejected Washington’s request to postpone the referendum.
“The referendum will not be postponed and we have not accepted the request of the US Secretary of State on the postponement of the Kurdistan referendum scheduled for September 25,” Barzani said in an interview with the Saudi daily Okaz. “It is strange that all the friends asked for Read more…

Again .. Barzani attacks Maliki: destroyed the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil

Again .. Barzani attacks Maliki: destroyed the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil

Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 11: 31 am

Baghdad / Sky Press: m

The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, the former Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, the responsibility of the situation in Iraq, adding that “he who dedicated sectarianism, monopoly of power, destroyed the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil.”

“The truth is that Nuri al-Maliki is the reason behind what came to Iraq today, is the one who dedicated sectarianism, monopolized power, destroyed the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil, violated the Iraqi Read more…

URGENT The battle to liberate Tal Afar begins

URGENT The battle to liberate Tal Afar begins

2017/8/20 10:51

[Ayna-Baghdad]
The commander-in-chief of the armed gangs Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi, announced at dawn on Sunday, the launch of the liberation of the district of Tal Afar west of Mosul gangs of terror.
He also confirmed the commander of the operations of Yatlafar team, Abdul Amir Rashid Al-Yarallah, the declaration and issued a detailed statement of the process, which stated that “your forces in all their formations and names will not rest with their palms or doze their eyelids only when the entire Iraqi territory is liberated from drowning gangs, The great Read more…

The attack on Tal Afar

The attack on Tal Afar

2017/8/20 11:48

[Ayna-Baghdad]
Iraqi Popular Forces and Iraqi Army forces surrounded Tal Afar district, west of Mosul, on Sunday.
“The 26nd Brigade forces in the popular crowd and the 9th Armored Division of the Iraqi Army surrounded the district of Tall Afar from the south,” said a statement Read more…

Newspaper: A meeting between Maliki and Barzani ends a break of years

Newspaper: A meeting between Maliki and Barzani ends a break of years

2017/08/19 16:20

Baghdad today

The Iraqi political sources revealed, according to the newspaper “the new Arab”, on Saturday, a meeting expected brings together the Iraqi Vice President, the “coalition of state law,” Nuri al-Maliki, the President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani, after four years of estrangement between the two sides.

Did not rule out leaders in Maliki’s coalition to hold such a meeting, explaining that the coming days Read more…

Newspaper: Iraq and Kuwait are heading toward closing the file of compensation between them

Newspaper: Iraq and Kuwait are heading toward closing the file of compensation between them

Saturday 19 August 2017 at 19:10 pm

Baghdad / Sky Press:
Iraq and Kuwait are moving towards closing the compensation file between the two countries during a conference hosted by the donors to restore the areas restored from the organization of a preacher in Iraq to be launched early next year.

The Kuwaiti newspaper “Al-Jarida” quoted sources as saying that the joint committees between the two countries are moving to finalize the compensation file by agreeing to invest in vital projects in Iraq, with the importation of Kuwait oil and gas materials, which contributes to strengthening the relations of neighbors, adding that there is no intention of Kuwait to give up For part of those receivables of $ 4.6 billion.

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Abadi, revealed last week, that Iraq has resolved with the United Nations the oil-for-food, leaving nothing to hinder the release of under Chapter VII Read more…

The appearance of Mohammed Saleh calls for the establishment of a political fund to pay public debt

The appearance of Mohammed Saleh calls for the establishment of a political fund to pay public debt

2017-08-19 at 19:23 (Baghdad time)

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The economic adviser to the prime minister called for the appearance of Mohammed Saleh to adopt practical steps starting next fiscal year is the establishment of an account called the “Public Debt Compensation Fund”, where “any increase in oil prices above the budget target, to be used to cover any external debt Whether internal or internal. ”
Saleh stressed that the burden of war on the organization and advocates of reconstruction and the development of all areas of Iraq require a financial program is inevitably Read more…

AIDS is sweeping Baghdad .. Health Karkh “warns” of the rapid spread of the disease!

AIDS is sweeping Baghdad .. Health Karkh “warns” of the rapid spread of the disease!

8-19-2017

Baghdad / Sky Press:

The Directorate of Health Karkh, on Tuesday, monitored 15 cases of AIDS, while warning against agreeing to the rapid spread in the country.

In a statement received by Sky Press, Karkh health director Jasab al-Hajami said the Karkh Health Directorate had recently identified 15 cases, a figure that is more than the number recorded in previous years.

“This is only a fraction of the actual number, because some people are carriers of the virus, but the symptoms Read more…

$ 112 billion .. Newspaper: Iraq’s debt will cover its oil to creditors

$ 112 billion .. Newspaper: Iraq’s debt will cover its oil to creditors

2017/08/18 10:07

Baghdad today – follow-up

Al-Arabi newspaper reported a report on the “risks” of Iraq’s foreign debts, which amounted to more than 112 billion dollars, while noting that Iraq will have difficulty in repaying, confirmed that the Iraqi oil resources will be subject to creditors, and for many years.

The newspaper quoted a member of the Finance Committee parliamentary Rahim Darraji said in a statement broadcast by local television, that since 2003 and so far Iraq has resulted in many Read more…

Source in Tal Afar: Unprecedented evacuation of the houses of “black banners”

Source in Tal Afar: Unprecedented evacuation of the houses of “black banners”

2017-08-18

A local source in the district of Tal Afar in Nineveh province said on Friday that the terrorist organization “Da’ash” was evacuated in an “unprecedented” move to the homes of its leaders and gunmen in the judicial center.

The source said that “the past 24 hours witnessed unprecedented evictions of houses of black flags,” referring to the homes of leaders Read more…

A dangerous difference between the independence and separation of the Kurdistan region

A dangerous difference between the independence and separation of the Kurdistan region

2017/8/18 12:02

[Ayna-Baghdad]
A legal expert confirmed the existence of a difference between the terms of independence and separation from the legal point of view.
Tariq Harb said in a previous statement that “the great and dangerous consideration of independence means the expulsion of the Read more…

Leading call: Abadi consulted Maliki and the latter does not think the third mandate

Leading call: Abadi consulted Maliki and the latter does not think the third mandate

2017/08/17 12:43

Baghdad today – Baghdad

The leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, Salah Abdul Razzaq, on Thursday, that the Vice President of the Republic and the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki, is not insisting on the return to the premiership, while talking about the existence of candidates to succeed the current Prime Minister Haider Abadi, .

Abdul-Razzaq said in an exclusive interview Read more…

Warplanes destroy Da’ash headquarters in Tal Afar

Warplanes destroy Da’ash headquarters in Tal Afar

8-17-2017

On Thursday, the air force managed to destroy several sites to organize a terrorist group, including a command and control headquarters in Tal Afar district, west of Mosul.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Defense, “the Air Force Command carried out by F16 aircraft based on the information of the intelligence cell Read more…

A source denies the [Ayna] deterioration of Maliki’s health and his transfer to Iran

A source denies the [Ayna] deterioration of Maliki’s health and his transfer to Iran

2017/8/17 13:32

[Ayna-Baghdad]
Denied source familiar with the deteriorating health of the Vice President of the President of the coalition of state law Nuri al-Maliki.
“There is no truth to this news and Maliki has not been transferred to Iran for treatment,” the source told the agency. “The vice president is still exercising his functions normally.”
Some of the media reported today the deteriorating health Read more…