Iraq announced that it plans to invest $184 billion in key sectors, including oil and manufacturing industries.

Iraq confirms stability of the official 1320-dinar exchange rate as inflation falls to 2.5%, supported by strong reserves, ...

By the end of this year, the UN's special mission to Iraq will conclude, and most US troops will have withdrawn. Some are ...

The new government faces urgent challenges: a severe water crisis due to drought and upstream dams, weak public finances tied to oil dependence, and delicate relations with both the U.S. and Iran.

Iraq has ordered the freezing of financial assets belonging to several Iran-aligned militant groups, including Lebanon’s ...

UNITED NATIONS -- The head of the U.N. humanitarian program for Iraq said Wednesday certain sectors of Iraq's economy are improving but supplies of electricity, drinking water and medicines are ...

The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) certainly represented a failure of the Iraqi military, its intelligence service, and the state more broadly. But even at the worst of times, Iraqis ...

Ali Allawi, a former Iraqi minister of trade, defense and finance, said that the mere presence of oil is one of the fundamental causes of the current economic crisis in Iraq in a lecture yesterday ...

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(Recasts; adds more details, IMF comment) By Alister Bull WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Iraq has taken steps to strengthen its economy but there will be no real progress until the country's dire ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's central bank cut interest rates by 1 percentage point to 15 percent on Monday, aiming to help to insulate the economy from the global financial crisis, the bank said in ...