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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Crippling dollar shortage underscores vulnerability of Iraq’s oil-based economy

      Attempts to control a monetary crisis have had unintended consequences for a country struggling to get back on its feet

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Oil
      Iraq wins landmark case against Turkey over Kurdish oil exports

      Nine-year dispute over region’s energy sales settled by international court

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The tragedy of Iraq, 20 years on

      US-led invasion has become a byword for catastrophic foreign intervention

    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The photographer who captured the birth of modern Iraq — and what could have been

      Latif al-Ani chronicled his country’s transition to modernity. 20 years after the US invasion, his images are painful but necessary viewing

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      The Iraq war left western societies unchanged

      Twenty years on, the political and cultural legacy of a divisive war is minimal

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Travel
      Iraq, 20 years on

      On the anniversary of the US-led invasion, tour operators are returning to the country and — despite official warnings — their trips are selling out

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Iraq sacks central bank governor as dinar slides in value

      Former governor Ali Mohsen al-Allaq returns as Baghdad struggles with a lack of dollars

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

      Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

    • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iran targets Kurds sheltering in Iraq: ‘We’re being used as a scapegoat’

      Tehran seeks to blame dissident groups across the border for anti-government protests

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      Disrupted Times
      Verdicts roll in on Autumn Statement: no jam today and no jam tomorrow

      COP27 goes to the wire, Iraq’s ‘heist of the century’, Sonic the Hedgehog creator arrested

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Crypto broker Genesis halts withdrawals

      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Iraq reels from $2.5bn tax ‘heist of the century’

      Bumper fraud implicates Baghdad elite and poses challenge for new prime minister

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Iraq names new leaders and breaks year-long political deadlock

      Abdul Latif Rashid defeats incumbent Barham Salih and paves way for new government to be formed

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      US citizen killed in Iranian attack in northern Iraq

      Tehran accuses dissidents in neighbouring country of fanning protests

    • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
      Travel
      Michael Palin: back on the road at 78 — and bound for Baghdad

      With his wanderlust undiminished at the age of 78, the former Python sets out across Iraq

    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Cleric’s supporters withdraw from Baghdad’s green zone after 30 die in unrest

      Moqtada al-Sadr apologises to Iraqis and tells followers to pull back from heavily fortified zone

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Deadly protests erupt in Baghdad after Sadr quits

      Several killed in clashes in Iraqi capital’s green zone between supporters of populist Shia cleric and Iran-backed rivals

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Oil & Gas industry
      Baghdad threatens action against international buyers of Kurdish oil

      Move is latest in escalating row over shipments from semi-autonomous region

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      News in-depth
      Iraq paralysed by government stand-off as Moqtada al-Sadr unleashes protest

      Government dysfunction means Opec’s second-largest oil producer is failing to benefit from high crude prices

    • Sunday, 12 June, 2022
      Iraq bans citizens from interactions with Israel

      New law puts Baghdad at odds with Gulf nations building closer ties with Jewish state

    • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
      Iran
      Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claim strike on Israeli target in Iraq

      Revenge attack follows alleged killings and raises tension amid bid to revive nuclear talks

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      Ericsson
      Ericsson’s Iraq crisis deepens after DoJ says deal breached again

      Swedish group’s disclosure about possible Isis payments branded as ‘insufficient’

    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      Ericsson
      Ericsson says it may have paid Isis terror group in Iraq

      Shares in telecoms group drop after internal probe finds payments were made for transport routes

    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      Global Economy
      What we learn about money from Sumerian cattle farming

      Today’s interest rate outlook depends on centuries old economic principles

    • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
      Belt and Road Initiative
      China pours money into Iraq as US retreats from Middle East

      Beijing strengthens regional ties despite overall fall in Belt and Road investment

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