Latest News for: Baghdad transport

Edit

DNO Starts Storing Oil in Kurdistan After Exports to Turkey Halted

Market Watch 27 Mar 2023
The federal government of Iraq successfully argued that Turkey breached an agreement by allowing oil from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to be transported through the pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan without prior approval from Baghdad.
Edit

Vietnam Veterans observance slated Wednesday

Uvalde Leader News 26 Mar 2023
Julianne. Flynn. National Vietnam War Veterans Day will be observed on March 29 and Dr ... Flynn will speak on commemorating Vietnam veterans and share her priorities for veterans ... Army ... She deployed as a critical care air transport physician and was assigned in Baghdad, Iraq, as the Chief of Emergency Services at the 447th Expeditionary Medical Support.
Edit

Iraq War Anniversary Timeline

The Pantagraph 16 Mar 2023
FILE - A portrait of Saddam Hussein still hangs on the burning Ministry of Transport and Communication building in Baghdad, April 9, 2003. Thousands went on a looting rampage as U.S. troops moved into the Iraqi capital ... .
Edit

20 years after Saddam’s fall, Iraqi president says country now peaceful, life is returning

Gulf News 14 Mar 2023
BAGHDAD ... Ahead of the vote, at least nine rockets targeted Iraq’s Parliament inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone ... Long-promised public transportation projects, including a Baghdad metro, have not come to fruition ... The balancing act is reflected in a monument near Baghdad airport.
Edit

Sherine Tadros Q&A: “Since leaving TV I barely watch it”

New Statesman 05 Mar 2023
Sherine Tadros was born in London in 1980. A former Middle East correspondent for Al Jazeera and Sky News, she is now the deputy director of advocacy at Amnesty International. What’s your earliest memory? ... I have a poster up in my house of the Nairn Transport Company, which offered an overland route from Beirut, Haifa and Damascus to Baghdad.
Edit

Why Baghdad may have the worst traffic in the Middle East

Economist 02 Mar 2023
But some travellers reckon Baghdad is now the most congested city in the Middle East, a region where the streets of many a capital are routinely clogged ... Wars, economic sanctions, corruption and neglect have gutted the transport system.\nMeanwhile, Baghdad’s population has risen three-fold since 1980, to more than 9m.
Edit

Iraqi president says country now peaceful, life is returning

Fremont Tribune 28 Feb 2023
Ahead of the vote, at least nine rockets targeted Iraq's Parliament inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone ... Long-promised public transportation projects, including a Baghdad metro, have not come to fruition ... The balancing act is reflected in a monument near Baghdad airport.
Edit

Palestinian gunman critically wounds Israeli in new violence

The Associated Press 27 Feb 2023
Ahead of the vote, at least nine rockets targeted Iraq’s Parliament inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone ... Long-promised public transportation projects, including a Baghdad metro, have not come to fruition ... The balancing act is reflected in a monument near Baghdad airport.
Edit

Iraqi president says country now peaceful, life is returning to normal

Khaleejtimes 27 Feb 2023
still (as) a war zone, which a lot of media still do,” Rashid said ... Ahead of the vote, at least nine rockets targeted Iraq’s parliament inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone ... Despite its oil wealth, Iraq's infrastructure remains weak ... Long-promised public transportation projects, including a Baghdad metro, have not come to fruition ... .
Edit

Syria and Iraq agree on cross-border trade

Middle East Monitor 31 Jan 2023
According to the Syrian Transport Ministry website, there will be two flights per week between Damascus and Baghdad on Sundays and Thursdays, starting from 2 February.
Edit

Middle East 'sales diplomacy' picks up speed

Korea Times 31 Jan 2023
Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong, second from left, and Hamid Naim Khudair Abdullah Al-Ghazi, third from left, Iraq's interior ministry secretary general pose for a photo in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday (local time) ... Won met with trade, transport and ...
Edit

Flights to resume between Damascus and Baghdad

The New Arab 30 Jan 2023
There will be two flights per week between Damascus and Baghdad on Sunday and Thursday starting from 2 February, the Syrian regime's transport ministry wrote on its website. "Baghdad is one of the important destinations for Syrian Air.
Edit

Flights, cross-border trade to resume between Syria and Iraq

The New Arab 30 Jan 2023
There will be two flights per week between Damascus and Baghdad on Sunday and Thursday starting from 2 February, the Syrian regime's transport ministry wrote on its website. "Baghdad is one of the important destinations for Syrian Air ... Freight cars transporting goods through ...
Edit

The US Holds Iraq Hostage with the Dollar

GlobalResearch 25 Jan 2023
A member of the Iraqi parliament’s Finance Committee, who declined to be named, explained to The Cradle that the US Treasury had previously followed a particular schedule in providing Baghdad with dollars – sending $2.5 billion every three months that were transported by five planes.
Edit

Iraqi PM walks diplomatic tightrope in crackdown on dollars smuggled to Iran

Khaleejtimes 24 Jan 2023
Dozens of smugglers buy dollars from Baghdad's currency markets and use school backpacks to transport it before packing it into four-wheel drive vehicles to the border, under the protection of armed guards, said an Iraqi border police colonel based at the Shalamcheh crossing near the southern city of Basra.

Most Viewed

Scottish politician and Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care minister Humza Yousaf
Creative Commons / Scottish Government https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
×