The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

Trump's withdrawal from Syria is consistent with his predecessors' treatment of the ethnic minority as a geopolitical pawn.

An alleged oil deal is raising diplomatic tensions