Militants continue Mansuriya attacks
<p>At least some of the security personnel guarding the Mansuriya gas field fled on Friday, as insurgents continued to assert control over the broader area.</p>
Displaced Iraqis from the village of Mansuriya, Diyala province, where fighting with militant jihadists has been raging, gather on the side of a road as they are heading to the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk where they want to take refuge, on June 27, 2014. (MARWAN IBRAHIM/AFP/Getty Images)
BAQUBA - At least some of the security personnel guarding the Mansuriya gas field fled on Friday, as insurgents continued to assert control over the broader area.
Security guards contracted to Turkey's state oil company TPAO were among the personnel to evacuate the area, according to a Turkish government official briefed on the matter. TPAO has been developing the field, which boasts 4.5 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves, along with minority partners Kogas and Kuwait Energy under a 2011 contract.
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