Attacks on Iraq gas facility, oil field kill five

Attacks on Iraq gas facility, oil field kill five Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) July 31, 2016 - Militants assaulted a gas facility and a nearby oil field in north Iraq on Sunday, killing five people in rare attacks inside Kurdish-controlled areas of Kirkuk province, officials said. Gunmen travelling on motorbikes opened fire on the gas facility's guards, then killed four of its employees and planted multiple bombs before escaping, officials from Iraq's North Oil Company and the Kurdish ... more

---