Gangs, tribal violence, and militia activity pose security risks at southern oil fields, but provinces and police are digging in.
Commercial traffic to and from Iraq’s main border crossing with Turkey has restarted, after nearly a month of disruptions affected fuel and power supplies in Kurdistan.
Before he escaped the self-proclaimed Islamic State, Jassim Mohammed witnessed the group's brutal rule, plunder, and commerce.
It once made over $1 million per day in Iraq alone, but now the IS oil sector, which lured hundreds of foreign workers, is struggling to meet its internal demand.
The Ibrahim Khalil crossing, an artery of KRG commerce, is closed for a second day as Turkey goes on the offensive in Kurdish areas of the country’s southeast.
The NOC's deputy inspector general, who had reportedly been investigating oil smuggling, was injured in an attack that killed two others.
A deal negotiated between Shia militia and Kurdish Peshmerga leaders, brokered in part by an Iranian official, has for now tempered sectarian violence.
An array of Kurdish forces burst into Sinjar town Friday, marking a key victory against Islamic State militants.
Deadly fighting threatens to shatter a fragile alliance among fractious forces nominally united to protect key territory from the IS group.
A joint assault on the IS-held town of Sinjar is slowly unfolding, with Kurdish government and militia forces, including Yezidi units, sharing the battlespace.
