IRAQ-IRAN

More Iraqi Strikes Against Iranian Oil Installations and Tankers

Iraq has kept up its attacks against Iranian oil terminals, offshore fields and vessels in the Gulf with air strikes on 14 and 18 October against the oil export terminal at Kharg Island and a naval assault on 12 October on the Bahrgansar offshore oilfield in northern Iranian waters not far from the border with Iraq. The field has been out of operation since the outbreak of the Gulf war in 1980, but Baghdad reports...