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The war-torn country controls the biggest oil reserves in Africa and typically pumps 1.2 billion barrels a day. But its regular oil production ground to a halt in January when tribes loyal to eastern-based forces seized large export terminals and

The strikes were “defensive, proportional and in direct response to the threat posed by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups,” Pentagon officials said on Thursday. (Image credit: Susan Walsh/AP)

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, American officials said, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad. Officials said