Head of the university’s board of trustees and vice chancellor for administrative and financial affairs, Abdollah Hassani said that the university will house five faculties, including experimental sciences, humanities and Islamic sciences.

Faculties of literature, jurisprudence and law will be set up in the first stage of the project, he said.

Hassani further noted the university will be constructed in an area of 22,500 square meters and it is expected to host 3,000 students initially.
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Fallujah city in Anbar province needs $2 billion for reconstruction, the city’s mayor said on August 10.

Eissa al-Sayer told Aljournal News website that securing the amount at present would be difficult given the government’s focus on military operations against IS, adding that world donors should focus donations on service projects rather than the infrastructure.

Sayer"...

The project to build first Iranian university in Iraq named ‘Al-Mustafa Al-Amin’ was launched in a ceremony in Kadhemein on Monday, a report said.

The university will house five faculties, including experimental sciences, humanities and Islamic sciences, Abdollah Hassani, head of university’s board of trustees and vice chancellor for administrative and financial affairs, was quoted as saying in the Irna report.

Faculties of literature, jurisprudence and law will be set up in the"...

The Sulaimani soccer stadium became the first internationally recognized sports stadium in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region on Sunday after it received the honor from the Iraq Football Association (IFA) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

The IFA and AFC committees which give recognition to soccer stadiums said during a press conference that the Sulaimani stadium’s structural and technical conditions now comply with the AFC requirements"...

The First Investor (TFI), a subsidiary of Barwa Bank Group, recently acquired a prime office property in Stuttgart, Germany, via its TFI Europe Income Fund.

The property is leased to a leading German automotive groups, a statement said. The value of the deal has not been revealed.

This investment is in line with TFI's strategy to identify attractive opportunities in"...

The Kurdish government has plans to construct some 2,000 residential units in the Yezidi town of Shingal in 2018 in coordination with the Iraqi government, said a minister.

'The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has a particular plan for Shingal town which is the construction of 2,000 residential units to the people of the town,' Darbaz Kosrat Rasul, minister of the Housing and Reconstruction of the KRG, told Anadolu Agency, adding that the economic crisis was the underlying reason in the way of reconstructing"...

Nineveh province needs one million housing units to make up for civilian residences destroyed during the war against the Islamic State, an official was quoted saying Friday.

Abdul-Karim Mohamed, head of the province’s investment service, said authorities plan to build one million housing units to shelter families whose homes were destroyed in more than eight months of military operations which ended last month with the recapture of the Islamic"...

(ME NewsWire)-- Ceruzzi Properties (Ceruzzi) and Madison Realty Capital (MRC) announced the closing of a $300 million construction loan for completion of a major mixed-use development at 138 East 50th Street in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan. MRC, an institutionally-backed real estate investment firm focused on real estate equity and debt investments in the middle markets, provided the loan for the project, which Ceruzzi is developing in partnership with SMI USA (SMI)."...

Pakistan’s Lucky Cement has reported that the first phase of the brown-field expansion of its cement grinding unit in Iraq is expected to come online by October 2017.

It will hava a capacity of 0.4355 million tons per annum, representing half of the planned 0.871-million-ton expansion.

The second half the expansion is expected to come online by the end of November"...

ABB, a leading supplier of substations, has won an order to supply and install a substation at the 3,000 megawatt (MW) Rumaila power plant, located in the Basra region of southern Iraq.

The completed power plant will be operated by Shamara Holding Group (SHG), one of Iraq’s largest private industrial conglomerates and an independent power producer.

The Rumaila power plant is expected to increase power generation capacity by about 20 per cent and address acute shortages of electricity, hampering"...