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Yahoo News
March 31, 2018
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - A world away from Iraq's battlegrounds, Basra's cat-lovers have found a haven for their favorite pets. Veterinary student Ahmed Taher Maki has turned his home in the southern city into what he believes is Iraq's first cat hotel. For as little as 5,000 Iraqi dinars ($4.20) a night - or halfÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 16, 2018
The MP did not exclude the possibility that “some security officials are complicit in these smuggling operations.” A few weeks ago, it was reported that the smuggling of oil from Basra and other southern governorates is ongoing. There are plenty of other examples on corruption in Diyala, Basra and otherÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
February 15, 2018
She is part of a phenomenon in Iraq's southern Basra province, where illegal drug use and sales have reached previously unseen levels, mainly among youths, over the last three years. Basra is at the forefront of a nationwide spike in drug sales and consumption that have transformed Iraq from a corridorÃâà...
Irish Examiner
February 5, 2018
Authors Peter R Neumann and Rajan Basra said that organised crime in the UK and Ireland had become multifaceted and entrenched, while the threat ... all border communities voted against Brexit, and that many have retained their sympathies for the Republican movement, cross-border smuggling will,Ãâà...
Irish Times
January 17, 2018
The harder the Border becomes post-Brexit, the greater the incentives for organised criminals and smugglers, Prof Neumann and his colleague Rajan Basra told the Institute of International and European Affairs in Dublin. Severe “regulatory divergence” between the Republic of Ireland and Northern IrelandÃâà...
The Detroit News
January 6, 2018
Basra is at the forefront of a nationwide spike in drug sales and consumption that has transformed Iraq from merely a corridor for drug trafficking to neighboring countries. ... During Saddam Hussein's rule, sales and possession of narcotics could be punished by a death sentence, which curbed smuggling.
The New Arab
January 4, 2018
The city of Basra in southern Iraq is at the forefront of a nationwide spike in drugs sales and consumption, with arrests nearly doubling since late 2014. During Saddam Hussein's rule, sales and possession of narcotics could be punished by a death sentence, which curbed smuggling. However, with theÃâà...
Arab News
January 3, 2018
During Saddam Hussein's rule, sales and possession of narcotics could be punished by a death sentence, which curbed smuggling. However, with the removal of the death sentence after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam, Basra saw an increase in the smuggling and sales of narcotics,Ãâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
November 30, 2017
The Basra Operations Command seized a container loaded with 80 million narcotic pills in the southern port of Umm Qasr, which was labeled the largest ... al-Abadi issued a decree to establish a committee of eight members of university professors and specialists to assess drug smuggling in the south.
Iraq Oil Report
November 3, 2017
Oil smugglers in southern Iraq are continuing to steal crude and other oil products from southern pipelines, despite a ramp-up in security measures and calls from local leaders to curb the crime. The latest smuggling operation to be uncovered, in late October, targeted an oil pipeline from the Rumaila oilÃâà...
Rudaw
October 25, 2017
“There's a completely different government in Basra that runs everything and this is with the testimony of the Basra MPs themselves,” he said. “That's why the level of poverty and lack of services in Basra is high even though the amount of oil extracted in Basra is tens of times higher than it is in Kirkuk.”Ãâà...
The Guardian
August 15, 2016
Crystal meth epidemic forces Basra's police to pick battles with smugglers ... In the shadow of Basra's wells, Abdullah's clan built a reputation as ferocious bandits and shrewd entrepreneurs, smuggling oil after the British occupation, while others became commanders in the militias vying for power in the city.
Breaking Energy
December 31, 1999
In recent weeks, special operations forces have been diverted to disarm militias operating in unstable towns such as Tuz Khormatu and Basra—the latest ... The government's oil wealth eventually reversed this disparity, though Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Iranian-backed Shia rebels, and tribal smugglers onÃâà...
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