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Basra's port of Khour al-Zubeir on Thursday received three ships transporting varied cargos, the public relations and media director at the State Company for Iraqi Ports said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Who would’ve thought that Al Anbar − Iraq’s largest province and its most famous cities being Ramadi and Fallujah − would be handed back to the Iraqis since it was one of Iraq’s most dangerous regions, which led to the country losing control... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

There are cafés in the suburbs of Damascus where you hear more Iraqi accents than Syrian. Freshly baked samoun (bread dipped in syrup), tea vendors on the street, and restaurants offering Iraqi specialities are now familiar in Jaramana or Saida Zainab.... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) closed its session on Thursday, the last this week, with a 2-million-share contract at a value of 1.05 Iraqi dinars (1 U.S. dollar = 1,118 Iraqi dinars) per share. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Iraq's economic prospects are improving with increased security helping to boost oil output and exports, while inflation has declined, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) opened its session on Thursday, the last this week, with one contract worth 5-million shares. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

The turning of Abu Ghraib prison into a museum chronicling the crimes of the former regime is seen as a feat by the current government. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

The Iraqi government and minority Kurds resolved a dispute over control of an ethnically mixed town on Wednesday, Iraqi officials said, ending a standoff that had threatened to trigger violence. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Consider first this story: During World War II, Archibald Roosevelt, the grandson of Theodore and cousin of Franklin, was serving as an intelligence officer in Iraq and Iran. In the hinterlands he encountered the Kurds, and like many Westerners was... Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

US combat troops could be pulled out of Baghdad within 10 months because of declining violence in the Iraqi capital, General David Petraeus, US commander in Iraq, said in an interview published on Thursday. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

U.S. occupation troops have set 11,000 Iraqi detainees free this year but at least 20,000 more remain in their jails, Iraqi parliament’s human rights committee said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Coalition forces detained 26 suspects during operations that targeted al-Qaeda network in different parts of Iraq. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Three Turkish oil tanker drivers on Saturday were wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through northern Mosul, an Iraqi army source said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Policemen in Talafar on Friday thwarted a suicide attack with an explosive belt that targeted a mosque in the district, the Talafar mayor said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Policemen on Saturday captured nine persons on the security authorities' wanted list during a military operation conducted in different areas of Baaquba district, an official security source in Diala said. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

A number of Kurdish journalists, intellectuals and artists on Saturday called on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to use dialogue to resolve the contentious issue of Khanaqin and the current presence of Iraqi army forces there. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

The Baghdad Operations Command said its forces captured 48 wanted and suspected men and defused 10 improvised explosive devices in different areas of the Iraqi capital during the past 24 hours. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Kurdish academics and politicians discussed during a meeting in Arbil on Saturday means to hammer out a fresh mechanism for article 140 of the Iraqi constitution on the issue of Kirkuk and other disputed areas, according to a source in the meeting. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

A lawmaker from the main Shiite bloc on Friday said Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has threatened the deployment of Kurdish forces outside the Kurdish enclave would make them face legal actions. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below

Four persons, including a Sahwa council leader, were killed in an armed attack in southwestern Balad Roz district, a security source said on Saturday. Read the entire article at IraqiUpdates.com Post your thoughts below