Arief Budiman (Jakarta, Indonesia) Most people do not think of fertilizer as of an important innovation of modern life. Yet, two out of every five
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s Oil Reserves Being Downgraded
Kurdistan has been recently hit by a series of bad news regarding the future prospects of its oil industry, which had already been negatively affected
US Airstrikes Destroy ISIS’ Oil Infrastructure for the First Time
Yesterday (16 November), the United States A-10 warplanes and two AC-130 gunships for the first time hit trucks used by the Islamic State to smuggle
From Oil and Gas to Phosphate: ISIS’s Progressive Seizure of Syrian Economy
Following ISIS’s seizure of Syrian regime’s important oil and gas fields, the extremists deepened their strike at heart of the Syrian economy at the end
Fertilizer Trade Thrives along Syria-Turkey Helping ISIS Build Bombs
In the Turkish town of Akcatale, laborers work long hours to prepare bags of fertilizer for their way across the border with Syria. In the
Iraq’s Major Oil Refinery under Attack by Islamist Rebels
Iraq’s Islamist militants almost managed to seize the country’s major oil refinery after fighting counterterrorism units yesterday (June 19) who succeeded to keep the important