Kurdish Forces Retake Oil Facility in North Iraq

Iraqi Kurdish forces retook an oil station Saturday that had been seized by Islamic state militants, but there were conflicting reports about the fate of workers at the facility. The Reuters news agency quoted two officials from the state-run North Oil Company as saying 15 oil workers were missing from the Khabbaz oil field in northern Iraq, but the French news agency (AFP) said 24 workers taken captive had been freed. Security officials also noted concerns explosives had been planted at...

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