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Iraq cites arms progress
Iraq’s foreign minister said in an interview with Al Jazeera that Iraq had reached understandings with Turkey on managing water projects in exchange for the continued export of oil through the Iraq–Turkey pipeline, whose shipments have risen to 260,000 barrels per day. He said Iraq had received around 6,000 detainees from the Islamic State group, including 3,400 to 3,500 Syrians. He added that disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz had cost Iraq about $60 billion during the first four months of the war, with exports falling to zero at times. The government, he said, had reached understandings with four armed factions to integrate their members and weapons into official structures, while negotiations with two other factions were continuing. Baghdad is also in talks with Washington over a demand to close border crossings with Iran, despite bilateral trade worth between $15 billion and $18 billion a year.
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