Iraq

A series of explosive-laden drone attacks struck three oil fields in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region early Wednesday, marking the latest in a surge of unclaimed assaults on energy infrastructure. The …

An explosion rocked an oil production facility in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region on Tuesday, forcing a temporary shutdown of operations, according to the U.S.-based company HKN Energy. The blast occurred …

U.S. forces were attacked at an airbase west of Baghdad early on Tuesday and a U.S. military aircraft responded in self-defence, U.S. officials said, in the first U.S. retaliation on …

A massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday halted operations at Turkey’s major oil export hub in Ceyhan and stopped key crude oil flows from Iraq and Azerbaijan, …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they fired missiles and drones at militant targets in the Kurdish region of neighbouring northern Iraq, where authorities said 13 people were killed. The …

Oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the United States to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous region, according to a letter seen …

Turkey’s military ‘neutralised’ seven members of the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in an operation in northern Iraq, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday. Turkey regularly carries out air strikes …