Topic: Iraq
Iraq has signed an agreement to receive the first of two 250-million-dollar loans from the World Bank to help the country plug its budget deficit, the finance ministry said Thursday. The announcement came around three weeks after the International Monetary Fund approved a 3.6-billion-dollar loan to the war-torn country. "An agreement for a loan of 250 million dollars was ...
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and main rival Iyad Allawi were neck-and-neck Thursday, with updated results showing their blocs in a tight race to be the largest faction in the Iraqi parliament. Maliki's State of Law Alliance led Allawi's Iraqiya list by just 40,000 votes nationwide, according to updated results based on 83 percent of ballots counted, as ...
The United States has a "special responsibility" to help Iraq address a dire humanitarian crisis that sees huge numbers of displaced Iraqis struggle to survive, an aid group said Wednesday. In a report released on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, Refugees International said 33 percent -- or 500,000 people -- of the 1.5 ...
