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Vital Khor Mor gas field attacked in Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

A November 26 drone attack on the Khor Mor gas field in the Kurdistan Region of Northern Iraq has led to power outages. The attack has been condemned by the US, UN, Turkey, Iran, and local Iraqi officials. Kurdistan Regional Government officials have called for increased protection of the facility, which has been targeted a dozen times in the last several years. Iranian-backed militias using kamikaze drones have been blamed for past attacks, and officials in Baghdad and Erbil vowed to investigate.



Iraq

Obama Envoy John Allen: No ‘Short-Term Solutions’ for Stopping Islamic State



Iraq

Kurdish Sinjar offensive too late for some Yazidis



Iraq

Iraqi Government and Kurds Reach Deal to Share Oil Revenues



Germany

Germany plans expanded engagement against Islamic State in Iraq


Iraq

Islamic State reportedly on Baghdad’s outskirts after week of victories



Iraq

Special Report: Islamic State uses grain to tighten grip in Iraq








Iran

As Islamic State fighters begin to blend in, defeating them no easy matter


Iraq

Islamic State inciting Arab-Kurdish divide in Iraq


France

UK prime minister: Our generational struggle against a poisonous ideology


Iraq

Mount Sinjar dispatch: ‘The pilot was afraid for my safety. Within days he would be dead’


Iraq

Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS


Iraq

ISIS leader flees to Syria fearing US airstrikes: Kurdish official


Iraq

Iraq crisis: Philip Hammond says UK would consider arming Kurds


Iraq

After US troops’ assessment mission, rescue on Sinjar ‘far less likely’