Iraq Council of Representatives Graphic Iraq's "rump" Council of Representatives (CoR) formed on April 14, 2016 when some members of Parliament staged a sit in after months of stalled reforms. The rump CoR, at its zenith, was supported by multiple prominent political parties, including the Sadrist al-Ahrar Bloc and the Badr Organization. These parties largely walked out of the
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EVEN before America sealed it off with blast walls and razor wire, the area now known as the Green Zone in central Baghdad was viewed with a mixture of fear and loathing. Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s brutal late dictator, adorned his palaces with monuments to himself. After toppling him, the American-led coalition moved into one of these—the Republican Palace—and the Green Zone devel
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The oil market never fails to find reasons for its volatility. The failure of the April 17 Doha meeting between Opec and non-Opec producers to freeze production at January 2016 levels immediately sent oil prices sharply down. However, the market just as quickly moved upward on supply outages, especially due to the oil workers’ strike in Kuwait, which was reported to remove 1.3
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British Prime Minister David Cameron (left) walks with Conservative Member of Parliament Nadhim Zahawi at the Conservative Party Conference, in Birmingham, England, Oct. 5, 2010.PHOTO: PETER MACDIARMID/GETTY IMAGES Each morning in Iraqi Kurdistan, civil servants go to their government offices or military outposts, and each evening they come home with no money to show
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Claiming success when failures are the norm is an art only a minority can master. On March 15, Iraq’s minister of oil wrote an article on the ministry’s website under the title A progress in gas but the ambition is bigger. The minister said “free gas production has risen from 600 million cubic feet a day (mcfd) during 2013—2014 to 1,100-mcfd as a maximum in the last months”. T
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