More than a week after a major oil spill, authorities are still struggling to staunch the flow of a massive oil slick on Iraq's main waterway.
Local officials warn of water contamination after a series of overnight bombings shut the export pipeline and send crude into the Tigris River.
The floodgates of the Syrian civil war's humanitarian crisis are open as refugees cross a new Tigris River bridge by the busloads and pour into overcrowded camps.
Insurgents bombed the already crippled northern export pipeline and attacked the security forces trying to protect it.
Federal, Kurdish, and local authorities are scrambling to combat a rash of militant attacks – and using the occasion to reinforce contentious territorial claims.
Less than two weeks after it recovered from a month-long outage, Iraq's northern export pipeline has suffered yet another bombing.
In a bloody day in Iraq, six Oil Police members were killed and two drilling company workers were kidnapped amid widespread bomb attacks.
Violence in Anbar province isn't deterring the Korea Gas Corp. as Iraq's security forces increase protection of the Akkas gas field.
More than 1,000 Iraqi Army troops in Tuz Khurmatu, the site of past Kurd-Arab violence, have defied their chain of command, refused to redeploy, and could soon formally join the Peshmerga.
At least 65 people were killed Monday, as political divisions and sectarian tensions continue to feed violence throughout Iraq.
