Iraqi Sunni Lands Show New Oil and Gas Promise
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New estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas on Sunni lands are likely to have significant political effects.
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Iraq's government submits a key bill on how to share the country's oil wealth to parliament, officials say.
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An idea to redraw the map to give religious and ethnic groups more autonomy is gaining traction in Iraq and the US.
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Iraqi oil officials said yesterday that insurgents blew up a cluster of pipelines in southern Iraq, though they said they did not expect oil exports to be significantly reduced.
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Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki announced that he was sending more troops to Mosul to drive the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from what he described as its last major stronghold in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, July 3 -- Iraq's cabinet has again approved draft legislation establishing a framework to manage the country's vast oil resources, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday, but has not yet acted on a potentially more contentious companion law that would govern the distribution of oil...
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Seven Sunni-led insurgent organisations in Iraq agree to form a public political alliance to plan for an American withdrawal.
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Sunni tribal leaders who have vowed to   drive al Qaeda out of Iraq's most restive province met the   Shi'ite premier on Wednesday, marking what Washington hopes   will be a breakthrough alliance against Islamist militants.
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Iraq is planning to spend more than $1 billion in 2005 to boost its oil production capacity by about 15 percent to 3.25 million barrels a day, an Iraqi official said.
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Iraq's leaders stepped back from the   brink of a political crisis on Sunday in the hope of preventing   a dispute over local control of oilfields erupting into all-out   sectarian civil war.
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- Shiite and Kurdish officials expressed deep reservations on Sunday about the new U.S. military strategy of partnering with Sunni Arab groups to help defeat the militant organization al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Shi'ite militia have set fire to an oil  well in southern Iraq, Baghdad said Monday, adopting a new  tactic in the uprising against U.S. forces and the new Iraqi  government.
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MADERIYAH, Iraq -- Saad Mahami wanted more firepower. He didn't trust the Iraqi government to give him support, so inside Patrol Base Whiskey, at the edge of this village south of Baghdad, he told U.S. commanders that his 71 Sunni fighters needed additional weapons to fight the insurgent group al...
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Despite Sunni objections, Shiite lawmakers are pushing legislation that would carve Iraq into largely autonomous regions.
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Iraqi and American commanders are preparing for a prolonged Â and possibly pivotal Â fight against al-Qaida in Iraq in this vital northern hub. But they are missing an essential tool used to uproot insurgents elsewhere: groups of local Sunni fighters.
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Iraq's cabinet approved changes to a landmark draft hydrocarbon law on Tuesday and will submit the bill to parliament after months of bickering between the central government and Kurdish officials.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.