By Julianne Geiger – 17 Aug 2020, 17:00 CDT US oil giant Chevron Corp (NYSE: CVX) is on the hunt for a new oil investment, and it is looking into the potentially lucrative and unstable area of Iraq. Chevron is mulling over a memorandum of understanding with the Iraqi government …
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Iraq canceled a ministerial visit and summoned Turkey’s ambassador on Wednesday when it blamed Ankara for a drone attack that killed two senior Iraqi military officers. Iraqi officials called the attack a “blatant Turkish drone attack” in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where Turkey’s army has held weeks-long …
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The Iraqi army says two senior security officials have been killed in a “blatant Turkish drone strike” in the north of the country, where Ankara has been battling positions of fighters for weeks, calling it “terrorists”. The drone hit a car belonging to Iraqi border guards in the Bradost area, …
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Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of the capital of Iraq and other cities after the funerals of two people killed during clashes with security forces the night before. The two protesters were killed Sunday night in central Baghdad during renewed protests against corruption, unemployment and poor public services, …
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At least two protesters have been killed in Iraq’s capital Baghdad during renewed nightly demonstrations against corruption, unemployment and poor public services. The deaths reported Monday by monitors and human rights officials were the first during anti-government protests since new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office in May. Simona …
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