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Kurdish Finance Minister Rebaz Mohammed Hamlan. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

We want an economy independent of Baghdad: Kurdistan Finance Minister

by Dalshad Abdullah | Jan 1, 2015 | Business

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—This year has not been a kind one for the Kurdistan region in Iraq. The year began with a financial dispute with Baghdad, when Iraq’s federal government canceled the region’s share of the Iraqi budget and refused to pay its public sector...

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Residents gather to protest near the house of prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker Ahmed al-Alwani, in the centre of Ramadi, on December 29, 2013. (Reuters/Ali al-Mashhadani)

Opinion: Alwani’s execution will fuel sectarianism

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 22, 2014 | Opinion

There is a widespread conviction among the majority of Sunnis in Iraq that Iraqi MP Ahmed Al-Alwani’s death sentence was rooted in sectarianism of Nuri Al-Maliki’s government, which persecuted many of its opponents. Maliki’s government accused all those it saw as...

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TOPSHOTS A Syrian man looks at the rubble of a five story apartment building that was destroyed in a barrel bomb attack in the al-Shaar neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo on August 27, 2014. Syrian war planes carried out a series of air raids on positions held by the Islamic State jihadist group […]

Opinion: A Middle East without Intellectuals

by Tariq Alhomayed | Dec 2, 2014 | Opinion

During my most recent visit to Turkey, Pope Francis described the actions being taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a “profoundly grave sin against God.” He said he could not resign himself to a “Middle East without Christians,” who had been free to...

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Sunni tribesmen take part in military training, as they prepare to fight against militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on the outskirts of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on November 16, 2014. (Reuters/Ali Al-Mashhadani)

Iraq: Head of Anbar tribe calls on government to fulfil promises of assistance in fight against ISIS

by Hamza Mustafa | Nov 24, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The head of the prominent Sunni Dulaim tribe from the country’s western Anbar province has called on the Iraqi government to “make good on its promises” to tribesmen in the province fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), amid a...

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This file photo shows a worker walking on an oil pipeline at the Khurmala oil field on the outskirts of the city of Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, on December 4, 2013. (Reuters/Stringer)

Iraqi Kurdistan may raise oil output by up to 80 percent in next two months: official

by Dalshad Abdullah | Oct 28, 2014 | Business

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq will in the next two months raise its oil production levels by up to 80 percent, a senior Kurdish energy official told Asharq Al-Awsat. Dalshad Shaaban, vice-president of the Energy and Natural...