What's a Kurdish oil tanker doing off the coast of Texas?

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan spokesman denies claims as pack of lies Iranian revolutionary guard soldiers march during the annual military parade marking the Iraqi invasion in 1980, which led to an eight-year-long war (1980-1988) in Tehran, ...

ISTANBUL/LONDON: Iraqi Kurdistan's attempts to export oil independently of Baghdad hit another obstacle Wednesday, as a Turkish energy official and industry sources said the autonomous region's pipeline to the Mediterranean has been shut for the ...

A worker walks on top of an oil tanker at Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan(Reuters) A tanker carrying Kurdish oil has unloaded part of its cargo in the South China Sea, although the identity of the buyer remains a mystery. The United Emblem ...

Afren Plc (AFR) shares plunged the most on record in London trading after the U.K. explorer focused on Nigeria and Kurdistan suspended two top executives amid a probe into unauthorized payments. The shares fell as much as 34 percent, the most ...

NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - Chemicals firm LyondellBasell , owned by Ukraine-born billionaire Leonard Blavatnik, appears to be the mystery American buyer of two cargoes of Kurdish crude delivered in May, according to U.S. government data and ...

A rug made in the image of Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani is viewed in a market in Erbil on July 3, 2014. Barzani asked members of Parliament this month to start making plans for an independence referendum. (Spencer Platt/) Summary By Brian ...

Iraqi Christians pray at a church in Kurdistan, where thousands have fled from the ISIS. () The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the jihadist group that now dominates much of Iraq and Syria, has been relentless in its crusade to ...

Oil smugglers say security crackdown has cut down number of daily shipments File photo of an oil refinery. (Reuters/Bret Hartman/Files) Erbil and Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat —Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq claim to have made major ...

A U.S. judge said on Tuesday her court "has no jurisdiction" over a tanker near Texas loaded with Kurdish crude oil because it is some 60 miles offshore, meaning the order she issued earlier to seize the $100 million cargo cannot be enforced at this ...