Iraq

Iraq's GDP is forecast grow at least 9.4 percent per year on average between 2012 and 2016

Firmly into 2012, how are the Arab revolutions developing? We check in with some of the Arab protest pictures to gauge to what extent they have reached revolution saturation, or on the contrary are just getting started.

MP Hussein al-Miribi, a member of the Iraqi Parliament's Economic Commission, called on the Finance Ministry to release information on debts incurred by the Iraqi government

In the winter months people in the Middle East are also in need of warming foods. Some of the region's nourishing and healthy winter foods can keep you warmer, and guard against winter viruses. Both sweet and savory, here are some of the Levant and Arabian seasonal specialties.

Almost a decade after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq’s economy is still in flux.

The spokesman of the Iraqi Oil Marketing Company, Hamed Ka'bi, told journalists that the country is negotiating with Japan and South Korea to sell them gasoline.

Syria's external links: As the Syrian 'lion' rages and the regime's clampdown on opposition forces scores an alarming death-toll, the media is ridden with questions addressing the peculiar deadlock or impasse in this Arab Spring country. Since international players often seem to 'help' to determine the fate of Arab regimes, it may be prudent to examine who exactly is set to profit from this regime's seeming inevitable demise, or else retention of power should the Arab League's (shaky) Peace Plan be implemented. Which countries of the region and transregionally are praying for Al Assad's removal, and which would far rather he hung around?

In an attack Friday on a funeral ceremony near a hospital in the Iraqi capital Baghdad at least 28 people have been killed.

Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan announced on Monday that the UAE will forgive AED21.3 billion ($5.8 billion) in Iraqi debts

A bomb killed at least 53 Shiite pilgrims near the southern port city of Basra on Saturday.

A wave of blasts hit two Shi’ite districts in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 24 people

Christmas is observed in some Middle Eastern countries, by local peoples as well as by expatriates. How do these some 10 million Christian 'Arabs' living in the Middle East mark Christmas, with most living in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine? Christmas visits smaller Arab Christian populations in Jordan, Iraq, and even some of the Gulf states.

A series of explosions Thursday morning in Baghdad killed over 30 people

Iraq's prime minister told Kurdish authorities Wednesday to hand over the Sunni vice president

The relationship of Arab and Persian can be summarized as one of antagonistic alternating bouts of best of friends with worst of neighbors!

“Lebanon and Iraq could turn into Syria’s lungs, as it were, allowing it to breathe under the sanctions,” said Lahcen Achy, economic analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Centre.

For Shia Muslims, Ashura is a solemn day of mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in 680 AD at Karbala in modern-day Iraq.

A car bomb went off in a street market in the mainly Shi'ite Iraqi town of Khalis on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 25 others.

The Iraqi cabinet has approved an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi Corporation, forming a joint venture to gather raw gas from three major oil fields, adding an important domestic energy source for Iraq and offering the potential for gas exports.

Iraq's economic interests as well as Iranian pressures have pushed the Iraqi government to oppose the decision of the Arab League to impose tough economic sanctions on Syria.

A suicide bomber slammed a car packed with explosives into the gate of a prison north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 19 people.

Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on Thursday warned from the outbreak of civil war after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq

Turkey carried out air and ground attacks on Kurdish targets in Iraq on Wednesday, vowing to take "great revenge"

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has stated American forces might still be able to stay in his country as trainers beyond a 2011 withdrawal date.