Monday, 2 April, 2012 , 12:02 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish region, which has halted crude exports in a row with Baghdad, owes the central government more than $5 billion and is smuggling the oil it produces through Iran, Iraqi officials said Monday.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 18:14 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish region halted oil exports on Sunday after Baghdad's top energy official warned it to reconsider before following through on the threat over the government's non-payment of funds.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 16:18 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish region halted oil exports on Sunday after Baghdad's top energy official warned it to reconsider before following through on the threat over the government's non-payment of funds.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:46 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has halted its exports of oil, it said on Sunday, claiming that the central government has withheld payment to oil companies working in the region for 10 months.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:28 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has halted its exports of oil, it said on Sunday, claiming that the central government has withheld payment to companies working in the region for 10 months.
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Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 15:18 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region should think twice before threatening to cut off oil exports and must get "their act together," Baghdad's deputy prime minister for energy affairs warned on Sunday.
Sunday, 1 April, 2012 , 13:53 AFP — Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for energy affairs Hussein al-Shahristani warned Total on Sunday that any deal the French energy giant signs with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region would be illegal.
Thursday, 29 March, 2012 , 10:28 AFP — The leader of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan was in Bulgaria on Thursday seeking investment in the region's farming, health and construction sectors, the government's press office here said.
Tuesday, 27 March, 2012 , 15:28 AFP — Italian police on Tuesday arrested five Kurdish men suspected of forcing fellow Kurds to pay a "revolutionary tax" to finance the Kurdish Worker's Party, which is banned as a terrorist group in Europe.