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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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi speaks during news conferance in Basra, Iraq March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s Oil Minister Jabar Ali al-Luaibi has ordered to establish an integrated oil city in Maysan Goveorate, noting that the city will pave the way for othe...

Islamic State fighters on pickup trucks in Anbar, west of Iraq. Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi forces have foiled a huge attack by Islamic State in a village, west of Anbar, Sputnik news agency reported. “IS militants attacked the Iraqi army and the tribal forces in al-Sakra village, west of Hadith...

A worker fills a tank with subsidized fuel at a fuel station in Jakarta April 18, 2013. REUTERS/Beawiharta (Reuters) Oil prices held near multi-month lows on Wednesday as investors discounted evidence of strong compliance by OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers with a deal to cut a global output. Glo...

FILE PHOTO: Graduates of a U.S.-trained police force, which expects to be deployed in Raqqa, salute during a graduation ceremony near Ain Issa village, north of Raqqa, Syria, June 17, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo Raqqa (Reuters) U.S.-backed forces are closing in on Islamic State in R...

Members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi. File photo. Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The paramilitary troops have killed eight Islamic State militants as an attack against south of Mosul was thwarted. In a statement on Tuesday, Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said IS militants “attacked the defense ...

FILE PHOTO: A section of the BP Easte Trough Area Project (ETAP) oil platform is seen in the North Sea, around 100 miles east of Aberdeen in Scotland, Britain, February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Andy Buchanan/Pool/File Photo (Reuters) Oil prices settled more than half a percent lower on Thursday after...

A pumpjack drills for oil in the Monterey Shale, Califoia, April 29, 2013. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson Singapore (Reuters) Oil prices edged up on Friday but remained near six-month lows, held down by an ongoing supply overhang that persists despite an OPEC-led effort to cut production and prop up c...

Members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi. File photo. (IraqiNews.com) The paramilitary troops have confronted an attack by Islamic State militants using booby-trapped vehicles near Iraqi-Syrian borders. Ahmed Radi Nasrullah, deputy commander of the 13th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization U...

OPEC organization. File photo. (Reuters) OPEC and non-OPEC ministers meet for informal consultations in Vienna on Wednesday in a last-ditch bid to agree the duration of oil output cuts as they seek to clear a global stocks overhang that has pulled down the price of crude. The top oil producer in...

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) in Salahuddin.Tikrit (IraqiNews.com) Paramilitary forces killed four Islamic State militants after foiling an attack on a village north of Tikrit, Iraqi military media said Wednesday.The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popul...