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Chevron signs Iraq Kurd oil deal

Agence France-PresseJune 17, 2013 09:02
US energy giant Chevron has signed another oil exploration deal in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, it said on Monday, one of several contracts between Kurds and foreign energy firms that have enraged Baghdad. The contract to explore the Qara Dagh field, in the south of the three-province region, is Chevron's third with Kurdish officials, who have signed a swathe of contracts with international oil companies to boost exploration and production of energy.

Iraqi forces enter town after gunmen leave

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 05:45
Iraqi security forces began moving back into a northern town on Friday after gunmen who seized it two days ago made an agreed withdrawal, officials said. The gunmen pulled out of Sulaiman Bek in Salaheddin province early in the day under a deal worked out by tribal chiefs and government officials, local official Shalal Abdul Baban and municipal council deputy chief Ahmed Aziz said. The gunmen swarmed into the predominantly Sunni Turkmen town on Wednesday after deadly clashes with the security forces, who pulled back in the face of the offensive as residents fled.

Kurdish militants to begin withdrawal from Turkey in May

April 25, 2013 10:15
By Murad Jambaz QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (Reuters) - Rebel Kurdish field commander Murat Karayilan ordered his fighters to begin withdrawing from Turkish soil within two weeks and rebase in the mountains of northern Iraq as part of a peace plan with Ankara to end a three-decades-old conflict. The pullout, negotiated by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) chief Abdullah Ocalan jailed on a prison island near Istanbul, offers the best chance yet of settlement of a war that has killed over 40,000 and battered the Turkish economy.

Iraqi Kurdistan poised to pipe oil to world via Turkey

April 17, 2013 04:15
By Orhan Coskun and Humeyra Pamuk ANKARA (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan will be ready to export its crude oil directly to world markets via Turkey within months after a new pipeline is completed, a move likely to deepen a row with Baghdad over the distribution of Iraq's hydrocarbon revenues. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is on track to finish the pipeline in the third quarter, linking Genel Energy's Taq Taq oilfield with an existing Iraq-Turkey crude pipeline, four Turkey-based industry sources told Reuters.

Northern Iraq: not all that Iraqi

April 12, 2013 15:04
When you walk on the streets of Arbil, Mosul or Sulaymaniyah, you would think you were in Diyarbakır, Sanlıurfa or Antalya. As you walk around, you realize that what you see is different from what you hear about this geography, which most people in Turkey associate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).Northern Iraq is closely watching the settlement process on the ground in Turkey. This region is viewed as an important part and leg of the settlement process and has been seeking peace within itself for many years.

Kandil complies with withdrawal decision, has reservations, reports say

April 10, 2013 16:17
Top operatives of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq, where PKK hideouts are located, have agreed to the withdrawal of PKK terrorist from Turkish soil, yet they say they have reservations, media reports indicated on Tuesday.Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtas and BDP Istanbul deputy Sirri Sureyya Onder returned from Kandil to Turkey on Tuesday. They had traveled to the region in order to deliver a letter written by the imprisoned PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan, to PKK operatives in Kandil.

Football: Iraq to face Syria in Baghdad friendly

March 24, 2013 14:30
Iraq will face neighbours Syria in a friendly in Baghdad on Tuesday, just five days after FIFA lifted a ban on international matches in the Iraqi capital. Initially, the match was scheduled to be played in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan. However, the Iraq football federation, as well as Gael Mahe, a FIFA match agent, confirmed to AFP that the game would take place at Baghdad. Iraq have been playing their competitive games in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. pga/dj/ps

March 21, 2013 14:31
US welcomes ceasefire call from Kurdish rebel leader jkb/jm

UPDATE 2-Iraq parliament passes budget despite Kurdish boycott

March 7, 2013 14:00
By Aseel Kami BAGHDAD, March 7 (Reuters) - The Iraqi parliament passed the country's 2013 budget on Thursday despite a boycott by Kurdish members in protest at the amount allotted to pay oil companies operating in the autonomous north, lawmakers said. Iraq's cabinet approved the 138-trillion-Iraqi-dinar ($118.5 billion) budget in October, but differences between Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions repeatedly thwarted attempts by lawmakers to pass the draft legislation in parliament.

Turkish guard killed in US embassy suicide bombing

February 1, 2013 23:30
A Turkish security guard was killed and several other people wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the highly-fortified US embassy in Ankara on Friday, officials said. The force of the blast damaged nearby buildings in the upmarket Cankaya neighbourhood of the capital where many other state institutions and embassies are also located. "There were two dead in the suicide bombing, a Turkish security guard and the bomber himself," Ankara governor Alaattin Yuksel told reporters, adding that a woman was also among the wounded.
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