Roadside assault targets western contractor providing oil sector security, the latest in an uptick of violence.
Four bombs found in Baghdad's main refinery could have caused massive damage, the third inside job on Iraq's oil sector in four months.
An investigation is ongoing into a bombing of a tank farm in Basra, but production and exports are steady after a brief slowdown.
Details unclear as rare attack on Iraq's southern oil infrastructure coincides with visit by Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs.
In a show of force, the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is organizing mass protests and denouncing a potential U.S. troop extension, amidst increased violence.
Restive disputed territory explodes with violence as a trio of bombings target security forces, killing at least 27.
Interior Ministry bows to protester demands, hires Oil Police contract workers to full-time positions.
After a crippling February attack on Iraq’s second-largest refinery, Maliki has ordered the Iraqi Army to take over Beiji security from the Oil Police.
Iraqi police officials say that nine bombs were planted along the pipeline west of the Kirkuk oil field.
Insurgents kill 55 at Salahaddin provincial council headquarters, a month after the bombings of a nearby refinery and pipeline.
