Iraq’s climate is changing faster than people can adapt. With each passing summer, new records are logged: record high temperatures, record low water levels. Between May and October, the heat scorches all that is dead and sears everything that lives. During the day, the sun forces people inside; in the evening, the heat lingers in cities that feel like the inside of a hair d
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Climate Adaption Key to Iraq’s Stability and Economic Development As water scarcity grows, Iraq’s government needs a comprehensive strategy and action aligned with the realities of climate change. BY: Sarhang Hamasaeed; Mac Skelton; Zmkan Ali Saleem Iraq is projected to be among the five countries hardest hit by the impact of climate change. The country is a
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Cop28 must be a moment for collective action, both in the region and worldwide The garden of Eden is said to have existed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in Iraq. Over the past two centuries, foreign adventurers came to marvel at the waterways and marshes immortalised in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with their water buffalo, wild boar, otters, pelicans, flocks of f
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Overall bilateral trade fundamentals are increasing despite sanctions The cultural and economic connection between Mesopotamia and Russia goes back to centuries before the Middle Ages. But in the contemporary era, Soviet-Iraq relations were established in September 1944. Despite the ups and downs of 1955 and the restoration of relations in 1958, Baghdad became one of the
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Trade and investment connections between Russia and Iraq have a long and intricate history. During the Middle Ages, merchants and explorers from both regions interacted, traversing through the Volga trade route and the Caspian Sea, establishing early trade networks between what would much later become Russia and Iraq. Formal diplomatic relations were established on September 9
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