The Kurdistan Region of the Republic of Iraq (KRI) is a constitutionally recognized semiautonomous region in northern Iraq with a population of 5.1 million (2012 estimate). Its government (the KRG), ...

Oil prices slipped on Monday, with Brent crude trading below $75 a barrel by 1235 GMT. Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer behind Saudi Arabia, is currently pumping about 4 million bpd ...

Syria and Iraq depend to a large degree on Euphrates water to sustain ... Third, the Bank should use similar WAS-type models for regions to address regional water issues in countries that are water ...

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