Kurdish flag controversy highlights unresolved disputes

Iraqi Kurds protest in Khanaqin, in Diyala province, over a directive to replace all Kurdish flags flying at government buildings with those of the Iraqi state. (ADAM AL-ATBI/Iraq Oil Report)

Kurdish-Arab disputes erupted into protests after Prime Minister Maliki banned the Kurdistan Regional Government flag from the contested city of Khanaqin.

Iraqis forced to abandon homes near oil pipeline

Iraqis are being removed from their Baghdad neighborhood because their homes were illegally built near an oil pipeline. (CARMEN GENTILE/Iraq Oil Report)

A group of Baghdad residents forced to leave the homes they built over an oil pipeline are crying foul. The Iraqi government says the move is for their own good.

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Iraqi oil sector focal target of al-Qaida

U.S. forces, on patrol in the Beiji refinery in 2010, will withdraw from the base at the refinery sometime this summer. (AYMAN OGHANA/Iraq Oil Report)

Information gleaned from the data captured after Osama bin Laden's killing reveals high-level orders to attack Iraq's oil infrastructure.