Iraqi News For February 15th, 2016

Iraqi PM offers to pay Kurds' salaries in exchange for oil (Reuters)
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BAGHDAD, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Iraqi's prime minister said on Monday Baghdad would pay the salaries of government employees in Kurdistan if the autonomous northern region stopped selling oil independently, suggesting a deal on sharing oil and revenues could be revived.

After a decade-long economic boom, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) began to suffer in 2014 when Baghdad slashed its share of the budget in response to the Kurds, in pursuit of economic independence, building their own pipeline to Turkey.

The KRG was forced to cut public workers' salaries by up to 75 percent this month as the region grapples with an economic crisis brought to a head by plummeting oil prices.

"I have a suggestion: Give us the oil and we will give every Kurdish employee a salary like we do for every Iraqi employee," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in an interview on state television.   

Oil exports from northern Iraq via pipeline to Turkey averaged 601,811 barrels per day last month, mostly from fields within the Kurdistan region. The rest came from the disputed Kirkuk field, which is operated by Iraq's state-run North Oil Co but has been under Kurdish control since June 2014 when Islamic State militants overran the north of the country.

The region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani led a delegation to Baghdad on Jan. 31 to meet with Abadi and other senior government officials, but no concrete decisions were announced.

The war against Islamic State and an influx of more than one million people displaced by violence in the rest of the country has compounded the problem, which is also the result of years of mismanagement and corruption.

Kurdish officials have warned in recent weeks that their region faces an economic collapse. (Reporting by Stephen Kalin; editing by John Stonestreet)
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UPDATE  that article is also in Yahoo so this is an article "they" want us to see click here to see Yahoo Version if you want Ghaban: National card will include all provinces
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BAGHDAD / obelisk: Interior Minister Mohammad Al Ghabban, on Monday, the ministry's keenness to be the province of Maysan provinces remain stable security, between the ministry is going according to plan in place involving all of Iraq's provinces the issuance of the national card.

According to a ministry statement, he said Ghaban 'met with the governor of Maysan Ali Douai and his accompanying delegation, and discussed with them a number of security issues concerning the Missan and resolve the issue of Maysan police chief, according to the controls and legal powers. "

He added that 'Ghaban discussed with Douay internal efforts in the national card project, where between Ghaban that the ministry is going according to plan in place involving all of Iraq's provinces issuance of national card within the time durations and intervals specified by the Ministry. "

For his part, he praised the governor of Maysan great efforts made by the internal efforts in the province, making it are safe and secure, praising the role of the minister and his sincere efforts seeking to fight crime and terrorism and to achieve
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Iraq and Iran sign a trade protocol next Wednesday
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Baghdad} Euphrates News Search Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and the Minister of Trade and agency Mohamed Xiaa Sudanese with Iran's ambassador in Baghdad Dnaii fled finalize the trade protocol would be signed next Wednesday in the presence of Minister of Industry and Trade Iranian Nematzadeh.

Sudan said in a statement the agency {Euphrates News} received a copy of it today, "The Protocol of trade would be signed with the Islamic Republic will be its influence positively on the two neighboring countries economy." 
He stressed that "Iraq's desire to better relations with neighboring countries to establish that Iraq Islamic them and the Republic of distinguished relations in a lot of areas, ".ant