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Tanker trucks wait to be loaded at Taq Taq oilfield in Erbil on September 5, 2012. (Reuters/Azad Lashkari)
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A picture made available on July 31, 2014, shows smoke rising from the Baiji oil refinery during the clashes between the fighters of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Iraqi forces in Baiji city, on July 30, 2014. (EPA)
ISIS black market oil operation booming: officials
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) black market oil smuggling operation is continuing to thrive despite escalating air strikes targeting the group’s positions in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi officials and regional oil traders informed...Caption:
Demonstrators chant pro-ISIS slogans as they carry the group’s flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul on June 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)
Lifting the lid on Iraq’s ex-ISIS tribal fighters
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—With few journalists reporting from the battlefields of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) remains a faceless organization; the world knows little about the men behind the black balaclavas. In a rare insight into the...Caption:
Iraqi Shi’ite militiamen aim their weapons during clashes with ISIS, in Jurf Al-Sakhr, about 43 miles (70 km) southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on October 7, 2014. (AP Photo)
Anti-ISIS militias out of government control in Baghdad: experts
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—At least twelve armed militias are operating openly on the streets of the capital Baghdad, Iraqi political and military figures informed Asharq Al-Awsat warning of an absence of law and order in the country. Armed militias have increased their...Caption:
Former Iraqi finance minister Rafie Al-Issawi attends an anti-government demonstration in Ramadi, 62 miles (100 kilometers) west of Baghdad, on March 1, 2013. (Reuters/Ali Al-Mashhadani)