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Iraq’s oil output is expected to reach five million barrels per day by end-2017 (Reuters) Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq has announced signing an agreement with the U.S. firm Orion to invest in natural gas extracted from an oilfield, located south of Iraq, and tu into usable fuel.The memorandum of understanding signed between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and the U.S. firm representatives allows building facilities to capture the gas from Nahr bin Omar oilfield in Basra province, Reuters reported....

Representational photo. Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A drone has been downed above govemental building in central Kirkuk, a security source said on Friday. Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “a drone that was flying above govemental buil...

Members of the pro-opposition Rahman Legion. Rif Dimashq (Syria News) The opposition’s Rahman Legion managed, on Sunday, to foil a Syrian army offensive on the town of Ayn Tarma, in Rif Dimashq, Qasioun News reported. Rahman Legion (Faylaq al-Rahman) has announced in an official statement that its troops managed to kill several soldiers belonging to the army’s 4th brigade, in the outskirts of ...

Fire rises from oil wells, set ablaze by Islamic State militants before fleeing the oil-producing region of Qayyara, Iraq, which has been recaptured by Iraqi forces, August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has set oil wells in southwest of Kirkuk on fire to hinder advance of security troops, hours after the launch of offensives to liberate the group’s hold...

Federal police carry their weapons during a battle against Islamic State militants, at the entrance to the city of Dawasa in Mosul, Iraq, March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani – RTS11ISC Shirqat (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Iraqi govement and paramilitary forces recaptured several villages on Thursday as the govement launched a wide-scale, final operation to retake all of Islamic Stat...

Members of Iraqi Federal Police carry their weapon at the frontline during a battle with Islamic State militants in weste Mosul, Iraq June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro Shirqat (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Iraqi Federal Police artillery bombarded Islamic State locations in Salahuddin preparing for an imminent invasion of the group’s havens on the province. The service’s chief, Lt. Gen....

Iraqi Sukhoi fighter jets. File photo. Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today/ Two Islamic State militants died on Wednesday when Iraqi army warplanes pounded the group’s locations northeast of Diyala province, a security commander said. Mezher al-Ezzawi, commander of Dijlah Operations, said the pair were stricken by fighter jets while riding their motorbike in Wadi Thallab, Naft Khana, northe...

Members of the Islamic State group. File photo. Annah (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today: Islamic State militants used bued petroleum to blur vision for assaulting aircraft as operations continue to clear their havens in weste Anbar. Iraqi website SNG quoted a source at the Anbar Operations Command saying that the militias dug canals in the ground, fill them with black oil and set them on fir...

Representational photo. Deir Ezzor (Syria News) Local sources informed that the self-proclaimed Islamic State militants shot down, on Monday, a helicopter belonging to the Syrian regime, in the weste countryside of Deir Ezzor, Qasioun News reported. The sources revealed that the Islamic State shot down a Syrian regime helicopter in the town of Shamitia, near the Euphrates bank, in the easter...

Iraqi security forces detain a boy after removing a suicide vest from him in Kirkuk in Iraq. Archival photo. Reuters. Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ISIS News Today: A local official in Diyala has announced financial rewards for citizens who kill or arrest suicide bombers targeting their regions. Mohamed Baqer al-Tamimi, mayor of Abi Saida region, told Alghad Press that a security member or citizen wh...

computers (representational photo) Annah (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have closed down cyber cafes at their weste Anbar haven, arresting all young clients inside, a source was quoted saying as the province anticipates imminent military action to drive out the extremist group. The security source told Alghad Press that the militants closed the cafes in the towns of Annah and Rawa, ...

Representational photo. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Gunmen have stolen IQD 400 million belonging to the Iraqi ministry of oil, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday. A source from the police told Alsumaria that a group of gunmen stole today IQD 400 million belonging to the oil ministry, in the capital B...

Representational photo. (IraqiNews.com) Dozens of Islamic State militants were killed as Iraqi intelligence carried out airstrikes in Syria to foil attacks against holy shrines in Najaf, Karbala, Samarra, the Great Mosque of Kufa and the influential Shiite Cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the go...

Investors monitor stock information on an electronic board at the Iraq Stock Exchange in Baghdad October 31, 2011. Foreign investors’ appetite for Iraq’s stock market is rising before planned IPOs by the country’s three mobile telephone operators, but the fledgling market’s small size means it may s...

Security forces, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi, managed to seize a factory for making car bombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). REUTERS (IraqiNews.com) Ten Islamic State militants were killed as the Shia-led paramilitary troops thwarted an attack near the Iraqi-Syrian borders, the media ...

Aftermath of Baghdad car bomb explosion. File photo. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A joint security force detonated a booby-trapped vehicle and arrested its driver at a checkpoint west of Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying. A security source told Baghdad Today that a security force, backed b...

Representational photo. Raqqa (Syria News) Syrian army troops managed, on Wednesday, to recapture the town and dam, in addition to several oil wells and a gas field, near Dbissâne, a military source told Tishreen Online. The source said in a statement that the troops of the Syrian army recapture...

The Iraq Stock Exchange Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraq Stock Exchange’s (ISX) benchmark index rose at Wednesday’s close by 0.44% or 2.49 points to the level of 574.08 points, backed by the positive performance of banks stocks. Trading volume decreased to 319.02 million shares from 2.29 billion...

Under the contract, Baker Hughes will develop advanced solutions for flare gas at the al-Nassiriya and al-Gharraf oilfields. (Reuters) Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi signed on Monday a contract with Baker Hughes, a General Electric company, for a fast track flare...

Representational photo. Damascus (Syria News) Syrian opposition fighters managed, on Thursday, to foil an extensive attack launched by the regime forces on the outskirts of Ayn Tarma Village, in the easte countryside of Damascus. Qasioun News reported that the Syrian rebels foiled the regime f...