The Baghdad-appointed governor of Kirkuk has established customs offices on the main roads leading into the Kurdistan Region.

The customs offices, ordered by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, are set up on Kirkuk-Erbil and Kirkuk-Sulaymaniyah highways.

Local officials said the Iraqi Federal Police would be in charge of the offices to tax the trade between Kurdistan"...

The U.S. has accelerated efforts to gather informants in Syria’s north and east. Ahmad Jaber, a former top ranking Syrian intelligence official, spoke exclusively to Yeni Şafak daily, noting that in the past two years, over 3,000 informants were given duties in al-Hasaka, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor, Manbij, Kobani and Tel Abyad.

Jaber said that the U.S. uses aid organizations and churches to conduct these activities, and that CIA officials who travel"...

US sanctions have made it too expensive for Iranian Shia Muslims to travel to Iraq to mark Ashoura.

Ashoura is a day of remembrance, commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.

Al Jazeera's Rob Matheson reports from Baghdad.

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Iraqi and Kurdish officials opened customs checkpoints on the Erbil-Kirkuk and Sulaimani-Kirkuk roads on Saturday (September 22).

The event to inaugurate the checkpoints was attended by Kurdish officials and an envoy of the Iraqi Prime Minister, NRT reporter Nabaz Miqdad said.

The installations are part of an agreement struck between Iraqi and Kurdish officials to open"...

The Integrity Commission said on Saturday (September 22) that its Department of Investigation was able to detect violations and excesses of more than $8 million USD in an contract between the management of Najaf International Airport and a security company.

In a statement, the department explained that a team in the Najaf Investigations Office asserts the airport management had entered into a fraudulent contract worth $8,322,000 with a company to"...

Crude oil prices were down on Saturday (September 22), compared to the previous close.

The price of Brent oil was at $78.68, down from $78.70 previous close, and US WTI crude was at $70.72, from $70.32.

OPEC agreed on June 22 on an increase in oil production from July after Saudi Arabia convinced Iran to cooperate by about 1 million barrels per day (bpd), or one percent"...

Corruption has become the biggest threat to the future stability of Iraq following the defeat of Islamic State, Britain’s ambassador in Baghdad has told the Evening Standard newspaper in London.

Jon Wilks said that although there were “remnants” of IS still present, the country was “settling down ahead of expectations” and starting to recover from decades of war and insurgent attacks.

But"...

One does not simply become a Group Finance Manager of a group of companies in education and F&B without being able to multitask, but that is precisely the skill of Daniel Funabashi, who juggled his responsibility while completing his Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) qualification.

“There’s no easy way. In order to get qualified, you need discipline and planning,” says Daniel from Dubai, where he is based."...

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) hosted an unveiling ceremony where they revealed the new tahr statue located at the front entrance, welcoming visitors to the university campus.

The statue is a representation of the Arabian Tahr, an endangered species of horned mountain goat indigenous to the Al Hajar mountain range, which was chosen as the AURAK mascot last year in a student competition to help raise awareness of the animal’s"...

Hundreds of football fans from the UAE have travelled to Portugal to watch the world’s first-of-its-kind ‘Six-a-Side’ mini football World Cup, which runs in Lisbon from September 23 to 29, 2018.

Organised by International Socca Federation (ISF), the inaugural edition of Socca 6 World Cup, is taking place in the iconic Praça do Comércio in Lisbon’s city centre. Best national teams of 32 countries from around"...