Legislation to extend the mandate of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction was approved on Friday, reflecting broad support for an office that has unearthed accounts of widespread ...
The EBRD predicted that growth in emerging countries will stall in 2026 due to higher energy prices and supply chain ...
President Bush plans to strip funding from the 2007 fiscal budget for reconstruction in Iraq. Administration officials insist the move won't end the reconstruction effort, but many other observers ...
Insurgents targeting oil lines, electricity plants and other infrastructure projects vital to Iraq's reconstruction have delayed U.S.-led rebuilding efforts and raised the cost of doing business in ...
Steve Inskeep talks with Stuart Bowen, special inspector general of Iraq reconstruction, about how relief and reconstruction projects are going in the battered country. Bowen is reporting progress, ...
An economic simulation warned that the region’s economy could lose more than $190 billion in just one month, and that Gulf states that have often bankrolled reconstruction efforts will be less able to ...
KUWAIT CITY (IRNA) – Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait, Seyed Jafar Mousavi said that participation in Iraq’s reconstruction will help establish stability in the Middle East region. Speaking to reporters ...
Humanitarian activist Basma al-Khateeb will tell you that Iraq doesn’t need any more reconstruction projects or development programs now. International donor funds are better spent, she says, on ...
The U.S. government was unprepared for the extensive nation-building required after it invaded Iraq, and at each juncture where it could have adjusted its efforts, it failed even to understand the ...
(Beirut) – The reconstruction of the Sinjar district in northern Iraq, which was heavily damaged in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), is being held up by a political dispute over its ...
For several months now our president has been telling us that, other nations unwilling, our armed forces are prepared to unilaterally invade Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein from power. It may ...