Outside of northern Iraq’s fortified urban centers, insurgents have prevented resettlement in rural areas and are now causing residents to flee from villages previously considered safe.
In an excerpt from his new book, “Iraq and the Politics of Oil,” former U.S. oil official Gary Vogler narrates the high-stakes struggles over Iraq’s largest refinery.
A deal negotiated between Shia militia and Kurdish Peshmerga leaders, brokered in part by an Iranian official, has for now tempered sectarian violence.
After alleged offenses against Shiite religious observances, two separate mob attacks at the Rumaila field left a British contractor hospitalized and forced Baker Hughes and Schlumberger to shut down operations.
