Production and expansion work continue at key gas field after yet another attack highlights unresolved Iraqi government security failures.
The fall of Ramadi was long in the making, and is only the latest symptom of long-standing dysfunction in the Iraqi government's strategy for Anbar province.
IS militants destroy critical control rooms and production units as pro-government forces battle to retake the remnants of Iraq's largest oil refinery.
After taking Anbar's capital, IS fighters are seizing more territory and threatening the Habbaniya air base, a key staging area for a potential Iraqi counter-attack.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has destroyed a crucial flow tank at the Ajil oil field near Tikrit, rendering the entire field offline for at least a year.
Tensions rise in northern Salahaddin province after militiamen confiscated vehicles and weapons from Iraqi President Fuad Masum's Kurdish Peshmerga bodyguards.
Days after IS fighters made a devastating incursion into Iraq's largest oil refinery, reinforcements have joined the fight.
A new Oil Police brigade has formed to guard foreign oil companies in Basra, partly in response to a rash of tribal and gang-related violence in recent months.
IS militants now control most of Iraq's largest oil refinery after a relentless offensive that has left pro-government forces in disarray.
Three days after Iraqi leaders declared the country's largest refinery secure, IS militants who control pockets of territory nearby have the facility in their crosshairs.
With a suspect in custody, Kurdistan security council says car bomb was detonated remotely.
