BASRA/BAGHDAD — Just weeks ago, US energy giant ExxonMobil looked poised to move ahead with a $53 billion project to boost Iraq's oil output at its southern fields, a milestone in the company's ambitions to expand in the country.
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THE US-backed Iraqi offensive to take back Mosul from Daesh (the so-called IS) gained fresh momentum on Thursday, with an armored division trying to advance into the city from the northern side.
The militants are now besieged in the northwestern (...)
AS Iraqi forces close in on the western city of Ramadi, thousands of civilians are effectively being held hostage inside by Daesh (the so-called IS) militants who want to use them as human shields.
Iraqi forces cut the hardline group's last supply (...)
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament voted unanimously on Monday to bar the government from passing important reforms without its approval in an effort to curb Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi amid discontent over his leadership style, lawmakers said.
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led invasion, Iraq's oil sector is at last pumping at the level it managed under Saddam Hussein, but it could take years to make further progress.
Iraq holds the world's third-largest oil reserves, a resource key to meeting future global energy (...)
