Protestors throughout south Iraq are angry at another summer with inadequate electricity, with some threatening an oil project at Majnoon.

Chronic outages due to smuggling and technical failures along the Turkish side of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline have sapped both federal and KRG oil sales.

The anti-IS coalition has at least temporarily set aside divergent interests in a concerted effort to dislodge militants from Ramadi and Fallujah.

Both sides are seeking multi-billion-dollar damages in a bitter battle over Kurdistan's most prospective gas fields.

The overhaul in Iraq's blending and marketing of southern crude helped raise southern exports and compensate for a dip in northern exports hampered by political disputes.

With Kurdistan's export pipeline tangled in politics, beleaguered oil producers hoped they could make ends meet with domestic sales – but demand has been uneven at best.

A brief but dramatic drop in the value of the Iraqi dinar is another worrying sign of the fragility of the country's economy.