The KRG's economic lifeline is down again - and has been for one-third of August - as the government risks sliding into a spiral of debt.
At both Iraq's largest oil field and its only deep water port, demonstrators had been blocking access roads but disbanded after receiving guarantees of employment.
Amidst the fervor of a national protest movement, unemployed locals are blocking access to work sites and oil workers are calling for increased scrutiny on IOCs.
The PKK does not intend to make further attacks on the pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to Turkey's Ceyhan port, though other Turkish infrastructure remains in the crosshairs.
Two senior northern oil officials have now been assassinated since late June.
As tensions rise in southeastern Turkey, a bomb hits the KRG's economic lifeline.
A group calling itself Kataib al-Mosul is waging a campaign of assassinations against IS fighters throughout Mosul and feeding intelligence to Iraqi and U.S. forces.
The fall of Ramadi was long in the making, and is only the latest symptom of long-standing dysfunction in the Iraqi government's strategy for Anbar province.
IS militants destroy critical control rooms and production units as pro-government forces battle to retake the remnants of Iraq's largest oil refinery.
After taking Anbar's capital, IS fighters are seizing more territory and threatening the Habbaniya air base, a key staging area for a potential Iraqi counter-attack.
