The oil dispute between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) is fundamentally about sovereignty, not oil ...

The oil minister said two or three technical meetings have been held with KRG officials to ensure IOCs receive guarantees for their costs. Ghani reiterated Iraq’s commitment to the Organization ...

The KRG ministry did not say what federal government statements it was objecting to, though Nasser al-Asadi, the Iraqi prime minister’s transportation advisor, told state media last Saturday ...

Iraq expects to reach an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to restart oil export flows from the country's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region within two weeks, Oil Minister Hayan ...

The conflict between Iraq's central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been longstanding. However, a recent ruling by an international court based in Paris has favoured Iraq.

Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi on Tuesday called on northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) to sign a new oil deal with Baghdad. In 2014, Baghdad and the KRG signed a deal under ...

In an apparent attempt to take revenge on supporters of Islamic State (IS), Peshmerga forces from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up ...

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KRG President (and leading KDP member ... In 2017, the ill-timed independence referendum provoked the Government of Iraq to reestablish sovereignty over the disputed territories, including oil rich ...

Iraq and its northern neighbour Turkey will hold a series of meetings in the coming weeks to devise a roadmap for increasing bilateral trade, which hit an all-time high of nearly $15 billion in 2024.