The Pipeline Card: Why the KRG’s Strongest Lever May Be Its Most Dangerous
Iraq’s oil minister said today that Kirkuk crude would be re-exported within a week through the old federal Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline…
KRG Civil Servants Owed $21bn After Decade of Delayed and Partial Salaries
The KRG owes its public sector workforce an estimated 30.8 trillion Iraqi dinars, approximately $21 billion, in unpaid wages, withheld…
Iraq’s Customs War Is Quietly Rerouting Trade and Draining Kurdistan’s Gateways
Customs revenue at the Kurdistan Region’s border crossings has collapsed by fifty percent, and traders across northern Iraq now face…
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Iraq Posts 8.8 Trillion Dinar Deficit in First Nine Months of 2025 as Wage Bill and Pensions Surge
Iraq’s Ministry of Finance close the first three quarters of 2025 with a budget deficit of 8.81 trillion dinars, as total government expenditure of 99.98 trillion dinars outstripped revenues of…
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A Pipeline Uday Hussein Built to Evade Sanctions Now Bankrolls Syria’s Kurds
The SDF-led administration in northeast Syria has increased its oil sales to Kurdistan Region buyers, rising from roughly 5,000–7,000 barrels per day in August to nearly 20,000 per day. The…
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A Gas Field in Kurdistan Becomes a Front Line in the U.S.–Iran Energy War
The 26 November combined drone-and-rocket strike on the Khor Mor gas field in the PUK-controlled Chamchamal district of Sulaimani is the most serious in a string of more than a…
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KRG Oil Exports Hit 200,000 bpd, Now Cover 52% of KRG Salary Bill
Iraq’s North Oil Company says around 200,000 barrels of KRG oil are currently being exported per day, a figure confirmed by the KRG’s Natural Resources Minister, who added that the…
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KRG Oil Exports to Hit 250,000 Barrels Daily in November, Sold as Kirkuk Crude at Ceyhan
The KRG’s oil exports are set to rise by 86% in November compared to October, with Iraq’s state oil marketer SOMO scheduled to load 250,000 barrels per day at the…
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What US Sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil Mean for Iraq and the Kurdistan Region
The US Treasury on Wednesday sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil—Russia’s largest and third-largest oil exporters—citing “Moscow’s serious non-compliance with the peace process to end the war in Ukraine.” The EU followed…
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KRG Salary Tracker: Month-by-Month Timeline (2015–2025)
KRG Salary Tracker Public employees in the Kurdistan Region have now gone two months without pay (September and October 2025), amid an unresolved financial dispute with the federal government in…
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