After weeks of stagnation, new reinforcements and intensified air strikes help the Iraqi Army liberate Nasir village and gain the initiative on the Ninewa front.
Workers at the Kurdistan oil project, operated by Russia's Gazprom Neft, have been targeted with land mines twice in the past week.
Latest attack on oil infrastructure doesn’t affect oil operations, but demonstrates persistent security holes in critical crude-producing province.
The commander of a Sunni tribal fighting force discusses the grinding campaign to drive IS out of villages between Makhmour and Mosul.
An oil rig, abandoned in fall 2014 as IS militants neared, has been fully secured as Kurdish and coalition forces gain ground between Erbil and Mosul.
New security leadership and armored reinforcements come to Iraq's oil capital, as protests over jobs and conflicts among tribes cause instability near major oil sites.
The latest in a string of asymmetric attacks around the capital, IS militants partially destroyed a propane filling station in Taji before Energy Police regained control.
At least two wells are burning and production has stopped at an oil field in Kirkuk after saboteurs exploited security gaps for the second time in a month.
Political dysfunction reaches a breaking point, as protesters answering to Moqtada al-Sadr ransack Parliament after several parties again stonewalled Abadi's Cabinet reforms.
To help militias fighting against IS, South Oil Company engineers have designed smartphone-activated rocket launchers and remote-control robots for defusing explosives.
