Azhar Al-Rubaie
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Why does the US control Iraq's oil revenues? (opens the original)
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For more than two decades, Iraq's oil wealth has passed through a financial system centred thousands of miles away in New York. The arrangement, created after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, was initially designed to protect Iraqi oil revenues from creditors and help fund reconstruction. Today, it gives Washington significant leverage over Iraq's access to its own dollars, leverage that the US is increasingly using as it pressures Baghdad to curb Iran's influence and the activities of armed
Iraq's anti-corruption crackdown faces scepticism despite dramatic raids (opens the original)
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A dawn raid inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone delivered one of Iraq's most dramatic anti-corruption crackdowns in years, but many Iraqis remain unconvinced that some of the country's most powerful figures will ever face justice. Tanks, armoured vehicles and counter terrorism units rolled into Baghdad Residence, a neighbourhood near the US Embassy inside the Green Zone early on 28 June, following an investigation by Iraq's new government into funds allegedly obtained through irregular
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