Robert Pether and Khalid Radwan were working for an engineering company contracted to oversee the construction of the bank’s new Baghdad headquarters, according to a United Nations report, when ...

The federal government is welcoming the release of an Australian engineer from a jail in Iraq. Robert Pether has been granted bail, emerging from a prison in Iraq after spending more than four ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that every effort will be made to get Robert Pether home to his family in Roscommon as quickly as possible, following his release from custody in Iraq after four ...

Robert Pether was designing Iraq’s central bank in Baghdad when a contract dispute broke out between his employer the country’s government. The quarrel resulted in Mr Pether and an Egyptian ...

An Australian engineer has been freed after spending four years in an Iraqi prison, officials have confirmed.

Robert Pether was designing Iraq’s central bank in Baghdad when a contract dispute broke out between his employer the country’s government.