Najib: the launch of the Central Bank of the amount trillion dinars a positive step to reduce the volatility of the dinar exchange rate
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 10:00 صباحا
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BAGHDAD / ... promised a member of the economic and investment commission parliamentary Najiba Najib, Saturday, the central bank's decision to launch an amount trillion dinars for private banks and increase the share of dollar sales for banking companies is a positive step to reduce the volatility in the Iraqi currency exchange rates.
She said Najib's "Eye Iraq News" that "the central bank's decision to launch the funds is a positive step to reduce the phenomenon of the oscillation in the Iraqi dinar exchange rates, in addition to the support of local production and enhance the dinar against the dollar."
She continued, "This step is a movement in the Iraqi market through loans given to small and medium enterprises in the country."
The Central Bank of Iraq announced earlier, to take the necessary measures to support liquidity in the banking system, and decided to facilitate the sale of foreign currency procedures to sustain the exchange rate.
The Central Bank, that the financial reserves of Iraq equivalent and a half times the weakness of the currency bloc, returned as "best rates" in the countries of the world, as he emphasized that Iraqi financial institutions are unable to fiscal deficit coverage, stressing the need to re-examine the structure of the budget and spending and diversification of income sources and achieve investment more broadly to address the decline in oil prices. It ended 7
Fears exist that the savage militant group ISIS may soon obtain a weapon of mass destruction from Pakistan and smuggle it into the US, according to reports.
ISIS plans to procure nuke weapon from Pakistan and smuggle it into US? May 23, 2015 _ 2:39 PM
Fears exist that the savage militant group ISIS may soon obtain a weapon of mass destruction from Pakistan and smuggle it into the US, according to reports.
The latest publication of the propaganda magazine Dabiq claims that the group has threatened the modern world that it would intensify its brand of violence in less than 12 months, which in any case, has been growing at an alarming rate, the Daily Star reported.
In an article entitled 'The Perfect Storm', it is claimed ISIS has billions of dollars in the bank and describes a 'hypothetical operation' which involves it buying a nuclear bomb 'through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials' in Pakistan, reported Daily Mail.
The article describes how the device could be smuggled into North America overland and by boat.
Although it admitted that the situation was "far-fetched," it warned that even if not a nuke, they could pop up about a few thousand tons of ammonium nitrate explosives.
Recently, a shocking video has surfaced showing ISIS thugs using a Bazooka to execute a captured prisoner. Pictures have also emerged from inside Palmyra, Syria, of decapitated bodies lying strewn in the streets.
A day ago, the so-called Islamic State terror group seized full control of the historic city of Palmyra in central Syria, just days after it captured a provincial capital in neighbouring Iraq, suggesting momentum is building for the ultra-hardline group.
Recentrly, ISIS also issued an audio recording that it said was by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling on supporters around the world to join the fight in Syria and Iraq or to take up arms wherever they live.
In the recording, issued by the group's al-Furqan media outlet and posted on several websites, a voice sounding like Baghdadi's says: "There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State.
"Joining (its fight) is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either join or carry weapons (to fight) wherever you are," the message said.
More than 23 billion dinars rising stock value last week
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 04:36 مساء
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Follow-up / .. Iraq Stock Exchange announced a rise in the total value of stocks last week to more than 23 billion dinars, while the systems market trading sessions in extra time on the two companies, the Islamic Bank and the Bank of North.
And systems market during the last week of five daily sessions in the formal market and four in the second market, while the number of companies traded amounted to 64 companies out of 95 companies listed in the market, including 75 companies in the formal market and 20 companies in the second market.
The trading market during the last week 32.433 billion shares compared to 3.284 billion shares the previous week, an increase amounted to 887.54%, while the total value of the shares of 23.516 billion dinars, compared to 3.433 the previous week and an increase amounted to 585.16%.
The number of executed transactions in the market has reached over the past week against the 3501 deal in 1343 deal the previous week, while the market closed at 928.70 points.
The number of traded shares purchased from non-Iraqis, 295 million shares financial value of 657 million dinars through the implementation of 146 transactions on the shares of 22 companies, with total stocks sold investors non-Iraqis, 835 million shares financial value of 1171 million dinars through the implementation of 291 deal on Shares for 13 companies.
And systems market during the last two sessions of the week trading in extra time, during which the two companies do two things on the shares of the company on behalf of the Islamic Bank amounted to more than 16 billion shares and is on the north bank shares amounted to more than 7 billion shares. It end
Iraq Stock Exchange announces the high value of the total shares to more than 23 billion dinars
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 01:12 مساء
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BAGHDAD / ... Iraq Stock Exchange announced on Saturday, the high value of the total shares last week to more than 23 billion dinars.
According to a statement of the Iraqi market for securities reported for "Eye Iraq News", during the last week organized five daily sessions in the formal market and four sessions in the second market, noting that the number of companies traded stood at 64 companies out of 95 companies listed in the market of which 75 companies in the formal market and 20 companies in the second market.
He added that the number of executed trades in the market over the past week amounted to 3501 deal in exchange for a deal in 1343 for the previous week, while the market closed at 928.70 points.
Referred to the Iraq Stock Exchange was founded in June 2004, and was approved by the manual trading, and in April 2009 electronic trading adopted in part by some of the companies, and began trading electronically for companies listed in the year 2010.
And trading in the market 95 subsidiary of eight sectors are banking, and industrial, and hotel and tourism, and agriculture, Aolastosmara, and insurance, in addition to Alatsalat.anthy 1
WASHINGTON — Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi without putting up a fight, despite holding as much as a 10-to-1 advantage over Islamic State militants, according to two senior U.S. defense officials.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss key details of the battle, said the primary blame in Ramadi rested with Iraqi security forces.
In the days leading up to its fall, a combination of spectacular car bomb attacks, the ambush of an Iraq army patrol and marginal weather spooked the Iraqi forces. The trigger may have been a minor sandstorm that prompted Iraqi commanders to believe that U.S. warplanes would not be able to bomb Islamic State targets.
A phone call to U.S. officials would have cleared up that misunderstanding, one of the officials said.
Iraqi commandos, soldiers and police officers panicked when they thought they wouldn't be protected by U.S. warplanes, one official said, and abandoned their posts. They left behind U.S.-supplied vehicles and weapons, which are now in the hands of the militants.
Iraq: our branches abroad evolved and become equivalent to their counterparts in the region
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 09:19 صباحا
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BAGHDAD / ... Rafidain Bank said on Saturday that its branches abroad has evolved significantly, indicating that it has become equivalent to the banks located in the region.
The general director of the bank on behalf of Kamal al-Hassani said in a statement "Eye Iraq News" received a copy of "The branches of the bank in the Arab countries, specifically in Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, its services continuously lead to the Iraqi community and to the commercial and financial sector in those countries ".
He noted that "the General Administration of the Bank worked to strengthen their financial positions in order to be parallel with their counterparts in the region," .anthy 1
An elderly Iraqi woman who fled the city of Ramadi, which is besieged by Isis militants, is pushed in a wheelbarrow as she waits to cross Bzeibez bridge. Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
Iran sends troops to help retake key Iraqi oil refinery from Isis US and allies have staged 22 air strikes against Isis since Friday
US says it does not oppose Iranian-backed militias if under control of Baghdad
Iran has entered the fight to retake a major Iraqi oil refinery from Islamic State militants, contributing small numbers of troops – some operating artillery and other heavy weapons – in support of advancing Iraqi ground forces, US defence officials said.
The US and its allies, meanwhile, have staged 22 air strikes on Isis targets since Friday, including four near Ramadi, the city taken by the militants this week, the US military said on Saturday. Coalition forces also attacked five Isis sites in Syria between Friday and Saturday.
Two US officials said Iranian forces had taken a significant offensive role in the Beiji operation in recent days, in conjunction with Iraqi Shia militia. The officials were not authorised to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on Friday on condition of anonymity.
One official said Iranians were operating artillery, 122mm rocket systems and surveillance and reconnaissance drones to help the Iraqi counteroffensive.
The Iranian role was not mentioned in a new US military statement asserting that Iraqi security forces, with US help, had managed to establish a land route into the Beiji refinery compound. The statement on Friday by the US military headquarters in Kuwait said Iraqis had begun reinforcing and resupplying forces isolated inside the refinery compound.
Iran’s role in Iraq is a major complicating factor for the Obama administration as it searches for the most effective approach to countering Isis. US officials have said they do not oppose contributions from Iran-supported Iraqi Shia militias as long as they operate under the command and control of the Iraqi government.
Friday’s US military statement quoted Brigadier General Thomas Weidley as saying that over the past three days Iraqi security forces and federal police have made “steady, measured progress” in regaining some areas leading to the Beiji refinery compound, in the face of suicide vehicle-borne bombs and rocket attacks. Weidley, chief of staff of the US-led military headquarters in Kuwait, recently described the oil refinery as a “key infrastructure and critical crossroads”.
The US statement said Iraqis, enabled by the US and its coalition partners, have “successfully cleared and established a ground route” into the refinery to resupply Iraqi troops. It listed US and coalition contributions as including air strikes, reconnaissance and the use of “advise and assist elements”.
Asked about the newly emerging role of Iranian forces in Beiji, the US command in Kuwait declined to comment directly, citing “operational security reasons”. It added that all forces involved in Beiji are “aligned with the government of Iraq” and under the control of Iraqi security forces.
Friday and Saturday’s strikes near Ramadi hit tactical units, armoured vehicles and a fighting position in militant-controlled territory. Ramadi fell to Isis on Sunday in a serious setback for Iraqi forces that also cast doubt on the US strategy of using mainly air strikes against the militants.
The other US-led attacks in Iraq were near the cities of al-Asad, Bayji, Fallujah, Haditha, Kirkuk, Makhmur, Mosul, Sinjar and Tal Afar. Isis tactical units, vehicles, fighting positions, heavy machine guns and buildings were hit.
In Syria, air strikes near al-Hasakah, Dayr Az Zawr, Kobani and Tadmur destroyed fighting positions, a tank and six anti-aircraft artillery systems, the joint task force said.
Separately, the Pentagon said on Friday that the cost of US military operations in Iraq and Syria since air strikes began in August was $2.44bn as of 7 May.
As well as the Beiji refinery, Isis fighters control the nearby town of Beiji, on the main route from Baghdad to Mosul, along the Tigris river.
The militants’ move on Beiji largely coincided with a successful offensive in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, last week. Iraqi forces withdrew from Ramadi on Sunday, leaving behind large numbers of US-supplied vehicles, including several tanks. The US said on Friday that its air strikes in Ramadi overnight hit an Isis fighting unit, destroying five armoured vehicles, two tanks and other military vehicles, as well as nine abandoned tanks and other armored vehicles.
Together, the Ramadi and Beiji losses have fuelled criticism of the Obama administration’s Iraq strategy and prompted the White House to authorise an acceleration of US weapons transfers to Baghdad, including expedited shipments of 2,000 shoulder-fired missiles for use against armoured suicide vehicles.
Iran had contributed advisers, training and arms to Iraqi Shia militias in an attempt to retake the city of Tikrit in March, but that effort stalled. In April, after the US joined the effort with air strikes, Iraqi security forces and allied Shia militias succeeded in regaining control of the city.
Tony Cordesman, a Middle East expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that while some in Tehran see the advantages of a Shia-led Iraqi government that deals equitably with the Sunni and Kurdish populations in order to achieve national unity, Iranian hardliners do not.
“At best, they are still pursuing a policy of competing with the United States for military influence over the Iraqi military and police, Shia militias, and even influence over Iraq’s Kurds,” Cordesman wrote in an analysis published Thursday. “At worst – and ‘at worst’ now seems more likely than ‘at best’ – Iran’s leaders are seeking an Iraq where Iran has dominant influence” after the Isis threat has been overcome.
Maliki: Kurds conspiratorial projects do not end as long as Barzani, head of the province
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 04:09 مساء
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Baghdad / ... The MP said the coalition of state law, Abdul Salam al-Maliki on Saturday, said that the Kurds conspiratorial projects on Iraq does not end and will continue as long as Massoud Barzani, president of the province remained , indicating the latter's quest for the establishment of a Kurdish state by provoking disputes with the center .
He said al-Maliki's " Eye Iraq News " that " Barzani return empty from the American administration, which did not allow him to separate from Iraq because of the refusal of regional countries surrounding Iraq and the state of the project portfolio invited him to raise a new problem with the federal government . "
The MP for the law that " after Barzani's failure to get a Kurdish state to secede from the country once and for all , raised new hiccup is that the Iraqi government did not deal seriously with the oil agreement " pointing to pleading a territory agreement oil to stir up differences with the center government and pressure it .
It should be noted that the oil agreement includes the central government transfer of $ 500 million to Arbil in the region committed to send 250 thousand barrels per day , which is what he considers a constitutional right after Kurds agreed upon and read it in the parliament . ended / 9
Iraq militias start fightback against IS in Ramadi 2 hours ago 23 May 2015
From the section Middle East
About 3,000 militia members in Iraq have begun moving against Islamic State militants after the fall of the city of Ramadi last week, officials say.
The pro-government forces say they have retaken Husayba, east of Ramadi.
Ramadi - the capital of Anbar province - is only 110km (70 miles) west of Baghdad. Its fall was seen as a major embarrassment for the government.
About 500 people died in the city, and more than 40,000 - a third of the population - have fled.
Analysis: John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, Baghdad
It looks very much as though the operation which has begun near Ramadi in Anbar province is being carried out without much involvement by the Iraqi army. Last weekend 200 Islamic State fighters captured Ramadi from 10 times that number of Iraqi army soldiers.
Military observers here maintain that the army simply doesn't have the determination to match the commitment of Islamic State, and that the so-called Popular Mobilisation forces are the only ones with the necessary drive and determination.
There's a problem, though. The majority of the volunteers are Shia Muslims, and there has been anxiety about using them in Anbar province, which is overwhelmingly Sunni. But the groups do contain Sunni fighters as well, and the government maintains they operate under strict control.
'Reprisals, shootings'
The Iranian-backed Shia Popular Mobilisation forces (al-Hashd al-Shaabi) launched their operation out of the Iraqi air base at Habbaniya, about 20 miles (30km) from Ramadi.
A Sunni tribal leader in Anbar, Sheikh Rafia Abdelkarim al-Fahdawi, told AFP news agency that his volunteers had also been deployed - in addition to police, special forces and army troops.
Iraqi police spokesmen told news agencies that IS militants had been driven from Husayba and it was now under the control of pro-government forces.
Ramadi's fall was a massive blow to the Iraqi army, to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and to the US, which had encouraged his policy of relying on the official armed forces and police and ruling out a role for the militias, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut.
The Shia militias played a key role in re-capturing another mainly Sunni provincial capital, Tikrit, from IS at the end of March.
Anbar province covers a vast stretch of the country west from Baghdad to the Syrian border, and contains key roads that link Iraq to both Syria and Jordan.
IS reportedly controls more than half of Anbar's territory.
The UN says it is trying to reach the civilians displaced from Ramadi.
The largest concentration is at the Bzebiz bridge over the Euphrates, on the road to Baghdad. It was closed by the authorities to prevent those fleeing from entering the Iraqi capital.
There are reports of children dying of dehydration in the heat, UN Deputy Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq Dominik Bartsch told the BBC.
It is unclear why the Bzebiz bridge was closed, though there have been concerns that militants could mingle with the displaced and infiltrate Baghdad.
Very little information is available about those still in Ramadi, Mr Bartsch said.
Displaced Ramadis have been forced to spend days stranded under very high temperatures
"We hear stories of reprisals, of shootings, of individual persecution of civilians who have remained in the city."
In addition to Ramadi, this week IS militants have also seized the last Syrian government-controlled border crossing with Syria on Friday and, in Syria itself, the ancient city of Palmyra.
Some observers said IS now controls 50% of Syria's entire territory - as well as a third of Iraq.
On Friday, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq warned that fighting IS was no longer a "local matter", and called on the international community to act.
An international coalition has been carrying out air strikes against the militants in Iraq and Syria for months. IS control in Iraq and Syria
White House admits .. Our strategy in Iraq has failed
السبت 23 مايو 2015 | 05:55 مساء
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Translation / .. report a US newspaper said the administration to the White House began to feel very embarrassed because of what happened to him the situation in Iraq, Syria and its failure in the war led in collaboration with its allies against al Daash, and at the time did not find the military campaign waged by America's useful to stop Almstdd organization for expansion, America began to recognize the serious failure.
The report, carried by the newspaper "The Wall Street Journal," translated "appointed Iraq News" , "After The White House came to growing criticism after the fall of gray, however Daash, and attempts at justification which was considered the incident by the US administration as" an obstacle strategy "as mentioned failure on the lips of more than one official source, did not find the White House, but admits that implicitly was on the lips of "Josh Earnest," a spokesman for the Information Office of the White House that "fighting with Daash have to wait for more than two years more optimistic scenario during which the situation on the ground has changed much which requires us to edit the strategy. "
According to the report, the US administration has postponed its plan to restore Mosul and preferred to start to accelerate and expand the training and equipping of Iraqi security forces.
The report continues that there is "controversy and exchanges between the presidential candidates Americans about the issue of Iraq where he pays a lot of critics of Obama toward re-send US troops to the Iraqi land, which remind him what he said Friday Lindsey Graham likely candidate for the presidential race through the Republican southerners conference by saying," The reality in Iraq now painless, and the only way that I know to protect these Iraqi nation is to send our soldiers to participate again Iraqis in their quest to stop Daash before the time runs out. "
And it draws the report said, "and taking in view of the commitment of the current US administration by refusing to send soldiers to maintain the approach currently confined to the processing and training of my people and urged Iraq and Syria to" fight their battles themselves, "as expressed by former US State Department, and it means expanding the duration of the conflict.
The report adds that "US officials have long talked about a time frame to participate in the battles against Daash-standing three years as expressed by President Obama through a grant authorization for the use of US military forces on the ground by the US Congress in February," he will give our armed forces and coalition continuity you need to three years, "referring to the mandate."
And bridge the report, but "it seems that this situation has changed now after the description of US officials for the duration of the conflict that is linked to the situation on the ground as expressed by the official spokesman for the Pentagon, Colonel," Steve Warren, "he said," that this battle will be long, but it will continue at least for three years. The White House said earlier that any proposal to send troops to Iraq is an incitement to invade another new Although not a presidential candidate or a US law-maker this option has introduced officially after.
The report continues, "in the same context, many Republican observers told to put the White House near their desire to push the US government to send ground troops to Iraq and was the most prominent of these governor of the state of Texas," Ricky Perry, "the former governor of New York," George Batki "in bucked this opinion Hillary Clinton announcing support for the current policy of support and training also made the remarks to reporters in New Hambtcher by saying "there is no active role for the US troops can be played on the ground in Iraq only provide advice and training."
It should be noted that the United States is now on the ground in Iraq three thousand soldiers within its mission of training and advice and this number rises after the announcement of its intention to speed up the training plans to send more trainers, which in turn will require sending more soldiers for protection and logistics. It ended 12
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