The World Bank Group has debarred a Turkey-based engineering company, citing fraudulent and obstructive practices in a World Bank-funded emergency infrastructure restoration programme in Iraq. The bank said Kontrolmatik Teknoloji…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has broken ground on a 100-bed hospital in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. The facility will be built on a turnkey basis,…

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has been chosen to build a “medical city” in the Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq. Iraqi Business News reports that the decision was…

Preliminary design work on a 1,200km motorway between Iraq and Turkey – known as the “Development Road” – has been completed, World Highways reports. It’s intended to support an economic…

Iraq has chosen a team of China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and Siemens to rehabilitate unit two of the Baiji gas power station. The 1.6GW power station in Salahuddin…

Abu Dhabi developer Eagle Hills has acquired land for a golf course and wellness complex in the centre of Baghdad. The $1.5bn project will include residential neighbourhoods, a five-star hotel…

Transport ministers from Iraq, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar met on Monday to sign a memorandum of understanding on Iraq’s “Development Road”. It’s envisaged as a 1,200km motorway, rail link and…

The government of Iraq has announced that designs for the $2.5bn Baghdad Metro have been completed, agency Iraqi News reports. According to Nasser Al Asadi, the prime minister’s adviser on…

The UK government has secured £226m to build new drainage and water treatment systems for the Iraqi city of Hillah south of Baghdad. Under the deal arranged by the government’s…

Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Iran’s first vice-president Mohammad Mokhber officially inaugurated work on a long-planned, 32km railway between the two countries on Saturday (2 September). The line…

Bidding has opened for a 1,200km motorway and rail link that will connect southern Iraq with Turkey, the World Highways website reports. Iraq approved the “Development Road”, as the project…

Iraqi developer Amwaj International breaks ground today on a $420m residential development in the bustling holy city of Karbala. “Karbala Gate” will have 796 two- and three-bedroom villas built on…

The government of Saudi Arabia has agreed to fund a $1bn mixed-use development in Baghdad. The Jadat Baghdad (Baghdad Avenue) scheme will be built in the Al-Rafil area of the…

Officials from Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to begin work on a 32km railway between the two countries after the end of Ramadan, without giving an exact start…

Chinese conglomerate Gezhouba Group has offered to invest $10bn in infrastructure projects in the Autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, news site Zawya reports.  Mohammed Shukri, chairman of the Kurdistan…