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A Dutch court began hearing a suit Wednesday filed by 16 Iraqi Kurds seeking compensation from a businessman who sold chemicals to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied a well in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.
UPDATED: BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday. The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of ...
NEW YORK -- Crude prices rose today after Iranian troops crossed into Iraq and seized an oil field. Iraq's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed Haj Mahmoud said Iranian...
Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries' disputed border, prompting a protest Friday from Baghdad and providing a dramatic display of the sometimes tenuous relations between the wary allies.
Massive bombings and scattered daily violence won't impede American troops from leaving Iraq by the end of 2011, the country's prime minister said Wednesday.
(RTTNews) - Iranian troops have entered southern Iraq and seized an oil well located inside the Iraqi side of a disputed border between the two countries, Iraqi officials said Friday.
Though it would let up as the US session wore on; crude put in for an aggressive rally Friday as news that Iranian forces had taken control of an Iraqi oil well. The dispute began in the morning hours in the Middle East when Iranian military forces seized control, and according to the Iraqi border guard general Zafer Nazmi, positioned tanks around a well in the al-Fakah region.
Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday.
A Wall Street Journal story on the apparent ability of Iraqi insurgents to intercept video surveillance taken by the US military's $4 million predator drones has attracted intense interest. But the vulnerability of the transmissions has long been understood, and the intercepts weren't really "hacks."
The top US military officer toured a bustling market on the outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday that is returning to normal as violence ebbs inIraq.
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian forces yesterday entered Iraqi territory at dawn and occupied well number 4 in the East Maysan oil field, Border Guard General Zafer Nazmi said.
Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Oil rose to the highest price in a week after reports that Iranian forces entered Iraqi territory early yesterday and positioned tanks around a well in a region south of Baghdad.
Armed Iranian troops crossed the border and took over an Iraqi oil well, violating the country's sovereignty, an Iraqi government spokesman said Friday.
BAGHDAD (AP) – Iranian troops have crossed into Iraqi territory and seized an oil well that lies in a disputed area along the two countries' southern border, Iraq's deputy foreign Minster said Friday. The deputy minister, Mohammed Haj Mahmoud, said Iranian troops seized oil well No. 4 Thursday night in the al-Fakkah oil field, located about 200 miles (about 320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad ...
While there are enormous supplies of crude now because of the global economic downturn, a conflict between Iran and Iraq would certainly crimp supply.