Assailants breached security, detained guards and staff, and stole money and equipment in an attack blamed on gang-style robbery rather than terrorism.
A deadly attack highlights Iraq's intensifying sectarian violence and exposes security gaps around a critical piece of infrastructure.
Militants launched a sophisticated assault on the military intelligence headquarters in the heart of Kurdistan's capital, killing at least six people.
Iraq's export pipeline to Turkey was bombed again, depriving Iraq of oil sales and compounding production setbacks at its northern fields.
More than a week after a major oil spill, authorities are still struggling to staunch the flow of a massive oil slick on Iraq's main waterway.
Local officials warn of water contamination after a series of overnight bombings shut the export pipeline and send crude into the Tigris River.
The floodgates of the Syrian civil war's humanitarian crisis are open as refugees cross a new Tigris River bridge by the busloads and pour into overcrowded camps.
Insurgents bombed the already crippled northern export pipeline and attacked the security forces trying to protect it.
Federal, Kurdish, and local authorities are scrambling to combat a rash of militant attacks – and using the occasion to reinforce contentious territorial claims.
Less than two weeks after it recovered from a month-long outage, Iraq's northern export pipeline has suffered yet another bombing.
