The mosque at the heart of this ancient city, once a bombed-out epitaph for Iraq’s spiral into civil war, is now heralded as a symbol of its painstaking recovery, JACK HEALY and OMAR AL-JAWOSHY report ...

Ali Nazar al-Shatari will be Iraq's new head of oil marketing as the Sudani government makes changes across several top oil posts. SOMO Deputy Director General and Head of Crude Ali Nazar al-Shatari ...

One month after Parliament passed legislation designed to help restart the pipeline to Turkey, implementation is mired in old disagreements. An oil jetty at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan in Turkey, ...

Iraq’s export volumes increased slightly month-on-month though revenues dipped as prices softened. Workers attempt repairs on the SPM-1 export buoy on Sept. 8, 2019. (Source: Basra Oil Company media ...

Michael Knights writes for Al Jazeera: On June 10, 2014, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa that established a collective responsibility for all Iraqis to fight ISIL forces, authorising a ...

After steady declines in the fourth quarter of 2024, the new year started with a rise in production and modest gains in export volumes. A drilling rig operates at the Ahdab oil field in February 2025.

New Syria oil trade begins, despite political volatility Syria's autonomous Kurdish-led enclave has revived an energy trade supplying oil and gas to territory controlled by the transitional government ...

The Iraqi government has decided to cut the number of state-financed paramilitary forces due to a shortage of funds as the international oil price declines, a spokesman for a leading militia group ...