We wish our Chrstian Iraqi fellow citizens and all our Christian firends in the world Merry Christmas 2021 and peaceful life with a prosperous economy in 2022
Read More1 December 2021; Baghdad - As Iraq becomes a Party to the Paris Agreement, the United Nations in Iraq is calling for solidarity with and support to people in Iraq in their efforts to confront climate change. Traditionally known as "the land between two rivers" or Mesopotamia, lush and fertile, Iraq is increasingly experiencing extreme climate events, compounding environmenta
Read MoreIraqis start the second centenary of their history as if they were guests of humanity, as Mahmoud Darwish used to say. One hundred years have passed since the founding of the modern Iraqi state (1921-2021), a zero-harvest centenary for a country that is on the brink of collapse. Iraq faces a host of existential threats, the least dangerous of which is the spectre of corru
Read MoreCowboy Drugstore : Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami. By Zacck Kopplin * Masrour Barzani, Iraqi Kurdistan prime minister and owner of a Miami building housing a CVS A few blocks from the water, in the heart of Miami’s glitzy South Beach, is a drugstore not like the others. Tourists buying sunscreen and straw hats from the CVS on
Read MoreAcknowledgments The Iraq Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the previous six months and presents findings from recent World Bank work on Iraq, placing them in a longer-term and global context and assessing the implications of these developments and other changes in policy regarding the outlook for Iraq. Its coverage ranges fro
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