How an oil pipeline battle shows the US gaining sway in Iraq
Iranian drones swept through the mountain air of northern Iraq’s Kurdistan region in mid-July, homing in on their targets: oilfields run by Americans.
Fired by an Iranian-backed militia group within Iraq, likely in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites weeks earlier, one struck the Sarsang field operated by HKN Energy, a company owned by the son of Texas billionaire Ross Perot.
Another hit a nearby field run by Dallas-based Hunt Oil.
