ISIS Has Become Most Well-Funded Terrorist Group in Recent Memory / In Letter Senators Urge Admin to Consider Labeling ISIS Transnational Criminal Organization to Send Strong Signal to Smugglers, Third Party Facilitators that U.S. Is Prioritizing Cutting Off ISIS Financing / Reports Indicate ISIS Receiving Revenue from Oil that Is Smuggled Through Black Markets and Purchased by
Read MoreErbil (IraqiNews.com) The Emirati Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) assured suspending its performance in Kurdistan Region. The suspension was due to the latest security updates near Erbil province. Recently, the terrorist groups of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant started military threats for Erbil province. /End/
Read MoreThe United Nation Security Council dramatically escalated the conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Al Nusra Front (JNF) and other Al Qaeda splinter groups by passing UN Resolution 2170 in August 2014, thereby expanding the range of retaliatory measures (short of military action) against individuals associated with those groups. This UN Security Council is
Read More(Reuters) - The capacity of Iraqi Kurdistan's independent oil pipeline will almost double to at least 200,000 barrels per day by the end of this month, helping the semi-autonomous region increase exports and revenue, industry sources and officials said. Oil revenues are a lifeline for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, whose peshmerga forces are being supp
Read MoreThe world came to the rescue of the refugees on Mount Sinjar, so why does it continue to ignore thousands more Iraqi minorities who face imminent threat of extermination by jihadists? In northern Iraq, fighters from the Islamic State (IS) have besieged thousands of men, women, and children. For eight weeks, these people have been under daily attack and are now running dangerou
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