The elephant in the room between Trump and oil execs: Iraq

President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting. But Big Oil’s experience in post-invasion Iraq proved that the reality ...
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May sees lowest U.S. troop death toll in Iraq

Nineteen U.S. troops were killed in Iraq in May, the fewest killed in any month since the war started. The second-lowest month for American deaths was in February 2004, when 20 were killed. May's toll ...

Before capturing Maduro, Trump admin sought lessons from Iraq war to get Venezuela’s oil flowing

As the Trump administration prepared late last year for the US military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a handful of officials began studying the US approach to oil resources ...
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Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal

(CNN) — Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and Euphrates shrink dramatically amid severe drought and the increasing toll of upstream ...