Cabinet considers new borrowing legislation to fund massive deficits after political headwinds stopped attempts to pass a full 2020 budget.
When Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office, the U.S. granted Iraq a relatively long 120-day Iran sanctions waiver. That diplomatic honeymoon could be ending.
As a new member of the COVAX facility, Iraq secures access to future vaccines — but in the meantime, other measures are needed to avoid a winter spike.
New leadership for Iraq's largest state-run oil company, as well as the Iraqi Drilling Company and the Oil Ministry's Technical Directorate.
Power struggles between factionalized security forces in northern Iraq have left security gaps that insurgents continue to exploit.
Advisors close to Prime Minister Kadhimi are elevated to top executive positions over economic and security issues.
Cabinet and Oil Ministry legal teams have proposed amendments to the 2018 law to re-constitute the Iraqi National Oil Company, after Iraq's highest court deemed many articles unconstitutional.
Officials announced a breakthrough in a deal exchanging custom revenue for civil servant payments.
The federal and Kurdistan regional governments are exchanging public recriminations over finances, despite optimism in some quarters about a deal that pushes aside perennial oil disputes.
Pivoting away from negotiations with ExxonMobil, Iraq is now putting the Ratawi oil field at the center of a prospective upstream, gas, and power deal with Saudi Arabia.
