The Saudi national team achieved a 2-0 victory over Yemen, in the first round of the group stage of the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup 2023 match at Basra International Stadium, in Basra.
Saudi player, Sumayhan Al-Nabit managed to score the Saudi national (...)
The Saudi national team achieved a 2-0 victory over Yemen, in the match that brought them together at Basra International Stadium, in the first round of the group stage in the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup 2023 in Basra.
Saudi player, Sumayhan Al-Nabit (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Al-Sudani inaugurated the 25th Arabian Gulf Cup in the southeastern province of Basra on Friday evening welcoming the guests and the participating teams.
Large number of dignitaries, including FIFA President Gianni (...)
The Competitions Committee of the Arab Gulf Cup Football Association held its meeting here yesterday, on the sidelines of the draw for the 25th Gulf Cup.
The meeting was chaired by Head of the committee Dr. Hameed Al-Shaibani from Yemen, in the (...)
The first meeting of the Media Committee of the 25th Gulf Championship was held here today under the chairmanship of Ahmed Zamel, and in the presence of the members of the committee, Faisal Al-Tuwaiher from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Khaled (...)
Protesters in the southern Iraqi city of Basra set fire to parliament's local office Friday evening as security forces fired live rounds in the air to disperse them, witnesses said.
The protesters had gathered to demand that Iraq's parliament sack (...)
Iraq is close to reaching a deal with oil majors BP and Eni for an export pipeline project that was initially planned as part of a mega-deal with US energy giant ExxonMobil, according to five senior Iraqi oil officials involved in the (...)
A rocket hit a site in southern Iraq used by foreign oil companies on Wednesday, including US energy giant ExxonMobil, wounding three people and threatening to further escalate US-Iran tensions in the region.
There was no immediate claim of (...)
Exxon Mobil has evacuated all of its foreign staff, around 60 people, from Iraq's West Qurna 1 oilfield and is flying them out to Dubai, a senior Iraqi official and three other sources told Reuters on Saturday.
The evacuation came just days after (...)
The Saudi Export Development Authority (Saudi Exports) concluded the Kingdom's participation as a guest of honor at Iraq International Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition in Basra during the period 5-7, December, 2017.
This event represents an (...)
A truck bomb exploded at Iraq's main commodities port near the oil-exporting southern city of Basra, wounding four people on Saturday, but officials said shipping traffic at the Umm Qasr docks was not affected.
Umm Qasr port sits at the top of the (...)
An explosion hit an oil pipeline that transports crude from Iraq's southern oilfields to a storage farm around the oil hub of Basra, Reuters quoted an oil police source as saying on Tuesday.
The impact on oil production was not immediately clear, (...)
Iraqi officials say an apartment building has collapsed in a southern town near the Kuwaiti border, killing four people and injuring at least six others.
The mayor of Zubair, Abbas Rashim, says rescue teams are searching for people who might still (...)
based Dao Al-Jomaih Group and China's Machinery Engineering Corp. tendered the low bid of $204.4 million to install four gas turbines in Iraq's southern Basra province, the electricity ministry said Tuesday.
Salam Qazaz, Iraq's deputy electricity (...)
Akhir 01, 1432, March 06, 2011, SPA -- A roadside bomb exploded near a civilian bus in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, killing six people and wounding a dozen others, a provincial official said.
The attack occurred in a northern district (...)
Gunmen attacked and robbed a goldsmiths' market in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today, killing three people and wounding four, Reutes quoted police as saying.
About half a dozen gunmen struck the market, located in an older section of the city, (...)
to-people ties. Indian townships mushroomed across the Gulf. Arab traders established themselves along the coastline of western India. Our languages were influenced by each other. These linkages, over several centuries, have left an indelible mark (...)
Oil major BP and Chinese partner CNPC have paid a $500 million (306 million pounds) signature bonus due on the contract they won to develop Iraq's supergiant Rumaila oilfield, a senior Iraqi oil sector official said.
The Iraqi Oil Ministry and the (...)
The state-run Iraq Drilling Company plans to drill 180 oil wells in 2010, and will be able to drill more than 250 new wells every year from 2011 onwards, the head of the company said.
Thirty of the new wells planned for 2010 will be in northern (...)
Iraq aims to install four new floating oil terminals and three new undersea oil pipelines that will boost export capacity to 8 million barrels per day from a current 1.9 million bpd, a top oil official said.
Dhiya Jaafar, current chief of Iraq's (...)
The top U.S. general in Iraq says
American troops will move into southern Iraq early next
year to replace departing British forces.
The news comes as Iraq's parliament again rejected a draft
law requiring all foreign troops other than Americans (...)
A three-year-old child was announced dead of cholera in the Maysan province in southern Iraq, raising fears of spreading the disease throughout the country, Xinhua quoted a provincial medical source as saying.
"Sajjad Farhan Zeki, died on (...)
The Iraqi government has
replaced some of the top officials in state-owned oil companies
in southern Iraq.
The Baghdad government has removed the heads of the South
Oil Company, which is in charge of exports, the South Gas
Company and the Iraqi (...)
A roadside bomb exploded
near a convoy carrying Iraqi generals in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday, but the officials were unhurt, one of the officers said.
Major-General Mohammed al-Askari, spokesman for Iraq's
Defense Ministry, said he (...)
British forces set up a
Checkpoint at a bridge outside Basra on Sunday.
Reuters quoted Witnesses as saying that the British troops in 8-10 armoured vehicles had set up the checkpoint at the Zubair bridge south of the city and were checking cars (...)
