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Iraq’s oil unions allude to tense future in Rumaila as foreign firms signed by the Oil Ministry are unwelcome, at least on the current terms.

Few details emerge about strange South Korea-Iraq oil deal

Plus: *Ghadban: Iraq oil workers will bring back production *Electricity Minister: France welcome to build nuclear plant *Iraq Oil Ministry gets 38 applications for second round of oil and gas field bids *Get your second round company list only at Iraq Oil Report *Pipeline to Syria makes news, no construction yet *Int’l Unions take Iraq […]

Deadly Akkas attack underscores Anbar volatility

Three people were killed and one was kidnapped when a score of gunmen raided a work site at the Akkas gas field and escaped into the lawless desert of western Anbar.

Kurdish rebels withdraw from Iraq’s Sinjar

A Kurdish rebel group will withdraw from the town of Sinjar in northern Iraq on Friday, it said in a statement, following threats of attack from Turkey’s president who has launched a series of airstrikes against suspected Kurdish rebel camps over the past week. The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, said it moved into Sinjar […]

Reports: Turkish jets hit ISIS in Syria, Kurds in Iraq

Turkish jets flying from a base in Turkey's southeast have struck Islamic State of Iraq and Syria targets across the border in Syria for the second straight night, Turkish news reports said Saturday. The fighter jets also hit camps of Kurdish PKK militants in northern Iraq, the reports said. There was no immediate official confirmation […]

Turkey hits PKK in Iraq as slain Kurds arrive

Turkish jets have pounded Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq in the fiercest aerial campaign in years, military sources said Wednesday, the same day the bodies of three female Kurdish activists who were killed in Paris were due home. Sixteen F-16 fighter jets took off from their base in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, a […]

Four days until Iraq oil and gas fields unveiled to international oil firms

Plus: *More details ahead of the roadshow *Kurdish national MP says oil law moving *KRG minister says natural gas to provide power for Kurds, industry and all of Iraq *Barzani heads to Baghdad for talks soon *Oil Search starts drilling *Shahristani talks pipeline plans *U.S. report warns of upcoming ethnic violence *Turkey readies for incursion […]

Report: Turkish airstrikes in Iraq kill 67 PKK militants

Turkey's state-run news agency says the military has carried out air strikes against Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq, killing at least 67 militants. Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources, said Saturday that 14 F-16 and F-4 jets were involved in the March 9 strikes which allegedly destroyed ammunition depots, bunkers and […]

PKK forces impress in fight against Islamic State

Ahmed Mohammed was staring at the corpses of two fighters from the Islamic State (IS), dumped in a natural ditch just a short distance from the town of Makhmour, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital city, Erbil. “We killed seven of them, but just brought back these two bodies to boost up […]

Kurdish PKK rebels ‘begin leaving Turkey’

Kurdish rebel fighters have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their safe havens in Iraq under a ceasefire, Kurdish sources say. "We know that they have started moving," Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish politician involved in the peace process, told AFP news agency. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) announced last month a phased withdrawal to start early […]

In Iraq bastions, PKK braces for new war with Turkey

Pointing to a crater left by one of scores of Turkish air strikes in Iraq's Kurdistan region, a PKK rebel official said that "Turkey has declared war against us". For three decades, Turkey was at war with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which was seeking an independent state in southeastern Anatolia. But two years ago, after […]