Topic: Nasiriyah
0 . Camp Adder is becoming more desolate as the Army continues to send its soldiers and equipment home and the base is prepared to be handed back...
Dozens of Iraqis violently protested in the southern city of Nasiriyah to demand better power supplies, wounding 16 people including 10 policemen, witnesses and officials said on Sunday.The Saturday evening demonstration involved dozens of people who shouted "Where is the electricity ...
A group of masked, sword-wielding Shiite youths aiming to "promote virtue and fight vice" terrorised a southern Iraqi city from early July until its members were rounded up.The group, calling itself "Suyuf al-Haq," or "Swords of Righteousness," issued death threats and ...
Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani said on Saturday that Iraq is seeking around 20 billion dollars to build four new refineries as it seeks to become a net exporter of petroleum products."The investment in the new refineries will be around 20 billion ...
Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones at provincial council offices in southern Iraq on Monday, wounding 17 police amid growing rage over power rationing in the summer heat, a police official said.The police, who included a lieutenant colonel, were all admitted ...
Staring out at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu with the sun beating down in the midst of the Iraqi desert, Philippe Cousin breathlessly exclaims, "It's extraordinary."The retired French engineer's family, even his country's foreign ministry, urged him ...
<div><p>Foreign tourists will soon be tramping around Mesopotamia again after a French company on Sunday opened an office offering visits to ancient sites in war-ravaged southern Iraq.</p><p>"We have organised our inaugural journey between 6-14 June to the ...
The ongoing conflict between the United States and Iraqi insurgents isn't the only bad news coming out of Iraq these days. The Guardian reports that the once-bountiful Euphrates River has dropped to dangerously low levels, creating a severe water shortage in ...
A consortium led by Nippon Oil is very close to signing a deal with Iraqi authorities in what could be Japan's biggest oil project, providing about 10% of Japan's daily oil demand.. The Nasiriyah oilfield in Southern Iraq has estimated ...
Resource-poor Japan is close to signing a deal with Iraq on the right to develop a huge oil field in the Middle Eastern country, corporate officials said Tuesday.Talks between Baghdad and three Japanese oil developers " are in progress toward an agreement ...