Crude Oil Falls Back After Thursday's Rally on US and EU Sanctions on Russian Energy

Oil tanker in open sea by StockStudio via Shutterstock December WTI crude oil (CLZ25) on Friday closed down -0.29 (-0.47%), and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ25) closed down -0.0043 (-0.23%). Crude oil and gasoline prices on Friday ran into some...

WFP Iraq Country Brief, September 2025

In Numbers 10,598 People assisted in September USD 279,193 cash-based transfers made In September USD 10.4 million for the next six months (October 2025 - March 2026) net funding requirements Operational Updates General Food Assistance WFP...

Britain’s Communist Party attacks Starmer

SIR KEIR STARMER has been likened to Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu for his record of “intolerance, repression and complicity in genocide.” The beleaguered Labour Prime Minister was attacked at the Communist Party of Britain’s political...

Iraq hands capital punishment to ISIS member and tribal gunman

2025-10-22T09:59:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraqi courts sentenced two men, including an ISIS militant, to death for terrorism-related crimes in Nineveh and Baghdad, the Supreme Judicial Council announced on...

Iraq: Maysan farmers struggle to survive as drought worsens

2025-10-22T15:50:09+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Maysan The agricultural sector in Maysan province, southeastern Iraq, is nearing collapse as prolonged drought and water scarcity leave thousands of farmers and buffalo...

Iraq, Italy launch business council to expand $5B trade exchange

2025-10-22T10:38:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad (Updated at 16:33) Trade volume between Iraq and Italy has reached nearly $5 billion, an Iraqi official announced on Wednesday, describing the figure as below...

Better contracts lure US oil majors back to Iraq

US oil majors are flocking back to Iraq just months after they decided to quit the OPEC producer and gave way to a swarm of Chinese companies. Chinese oil developers now dominate Iraq’s oil industry after several of them were awarded mega projects...

New political thriller by Hill’s organized-crime novelist

One does not normally expect to see the words “mob” or “organized crime” in the same sentence as “Chestnut Hill,” but Alfred O’Neill, who grew up in Chestnut Hill and came back here to live 16 years ago, is an anomaly. O’Neill was an advertising...

Iraq and Syria seize drugs in joint operation against smuggling networks

Iraqi and Syrian security forces have seized 370kg of drugs in a joint operation in Syria to crack down on smuggling networks, Iraqi authorities said on Wednesday. The General Directorate of Narcotics Control at the Ministry of Interior said...

Hedges Report: Construction of the Surveillance State

Whitney Webb on how mass surveillance and the military industrial complex are beginning to coalesce in unprecedented ways under the Trump Administration. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report The descent into a new, mutated and...

Iraqi PM and US Secretary of State discuss trade, security in call

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaa al-Sudani and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have conducted a telephone discussion addressing American commercial interests in Iraq and pressing regional security matters. According to State Department...

An 82nd Airborne pilot took his final flight two years after Iraq drone attack

Before the injury, Lorna Illerbrunn said her husband would have simply wanted a retirement at a hangar, surrounded by Army helicopters, good friends, sandwiches from Jimmy John’s, and cold Miller Lite. Lorna Illerbrunn made sure all that was there...

DoD Civilians Face Job Scrutiny

Posted by Java Joe on Thursday, October 30, 2025 · Leave a Comment President Donald Trump interacts with sailors in the hangar bay of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) during a presidential visit while moored pierside on...

Robert Carmichael - Honour role of farming community by wearing poppies with pride, urges UUP

Robert Carmichael, the East Londonderry Ulster Unionist Party Association Chairman, has called on the entire community to wear their poppies with pride in the run-up to and during Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day in honour of the “valiant...

US prioritizes trade and stability in Iraq under Trump strategy

2025-10-24T17:20:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Washington The US State Department (DoS) said Friday that President Donald Trump’s Iraq strategy prioritizes “commerce over conflict,” focusing on expanding private-sector...

KROHNE Joins Iraq Petroleum & Infrastructure Week 2025 As Gold Sponsor

KROHNE is proud to join IPIW 2025 as a Gold Sponsor Under the patronage of H.E. the Prime Minister of Iraq and with the support of H.E. the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs – Minister of Oil, KROHNE is proud to announce its participation...

What Would Regime Change in Venezuela Look Like?

The United States appears on the brink of launching a military strike on Venezuela. Fourteen percent of the global U.S. fleet is now deployed to the Caribbean Sea, and U.S. forces have destroyed at least five suspected “drug boats” operated by...

Down Cemetery Road – a fresh female take on Slow Horses

Is the world ready for a female Jackson Lamb? Just as you think you’re safe from the egg-stained trousers of Slow Horses’s one-man biohazard played by Gary Oldman, the new conspiracy thriller Down Cemetery Road has Emma Thompson’s private...

Energy cooperation: Baghdad clinches gas MoU with Ashgabat

2025-10-21T18:16:45+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad Iraq and Turkmenistan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to expand energy cooperation, including natural gas imports, as part of the country’s...

Iraq delivers +100k barrels of oil to Jordan within 9 days

2025-10-21T16:54:01+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Baghdad / Amman Iraq, OPEC's second-largest exporter, delivered 117,180 barrels of crude oil to Jordan between October 11 and 19, the Jordanian Ministry of Energy and Mineral...