Umm Qasr Port is Iraq's only deep water port, part of the city of Umm Qasr.Iraq's second port in scale of size and goods shipped to the port of Basra, it is strategically important, located on the western edge of the al-Faw peninsula, where the mouth of the Shatt al Arab waterway enters the Persian Gulf. Read More
The anti-government protests that began across Iraq on October 25 have so far cost the the country's economy more than $6 billion, a spokesman for Prime Minister Adel Abdelmahdi has said. ...
