UNICEF in Iraq launched a project with the US Agency for International Development to improve the country's drinking water and sanitation networks

The military company Caci International will have to pay compensation of $42 million to three Iraqis who had denounced the inhuman and degrading treatment they suffered in the Abu Ghraib prison, during the years of the American invasion

Weekly oil exports to the US increased last week to 237.000 barrels, announced the Iraqi Energy Information Administration

The country is actively pursuing foreign investment to reduce its notorious gas flaring; Hamid Younis Al-Zobaie, Deputy Oil Minister, described Iraq as 'one of the worst offenders' of gas flaring, a major source of CO2 emissions, methane and black soot