PEACE campaigners reiterated demands for US and British leaders to face justice for their war crimes on Tuesday after former deputy leader of the Labour Party John Prescott admitted that the Iraq war would be a "mark against" the record of new Labour. ....

Platts Oilgram Putin signs measure limiting foreign access Clears way for Russia to issue licenses on major fields Moscow—Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a long-awaited bill limiting foreign investment in strategic industries, i....

The causes of this convergence boil down to the logic of self-interest, although it is logic in a place where even the most basic reasoning refuses to go in a straight line. In essence, though, the calculation by the United States is that it must back the....

It is clear now, and we are at the end of the fifth year of occupation, that the reasons announced by USA for the war were completely untrue, and the main reason, which was not announced, was Iraqi oil, a fact knows for many who were following the Iraqi....

We write to denounce the lawsuit against Samah Idriss and Al-Adab by Fakhri Karim, editor of Al-Mada. We know Samah well from his years of activism in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese people while studying in the U.S. We highly respect Samah's wo....

Haifa Zangana is an Iraqi political commentator, novelist, and former political prisoner of Saddam Hussein's regime. She is an adviser to Arab Media Watch on Iraqi affairs, a weekly columnist for Al Quds newspaper, and a commentator for The Guardian, Red....

AMMAN (Dow Jones)--The federal Iraqi government in Baghdad is considering blacklisting foreign oil companies that sign contracts with northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, or KRG, the oil minister said Friday. "There are many....

between foreign firms and the Kurdish regional government are illegal and the crude cannot legally be exported, Iraq's oil minister said on Monday. Iraq's cabinet agreed a draft law for dividing the world's third largest oil reserves in February, but....

Here is the sentence in The Age of Turbulence, the 531-page memoir of former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan, that caused so much turbulence in Washington last week: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone know....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Hunt Oil Co. has struck a deal to explore for oil in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, signaling a new willingness by some large Western companies to bypass the fractious government in Baghdad and deal directly with regi....