February 3, 2021 at 1:14 pm | Published in: Iraq, Middle East, News
Oil tankers seen at the Al-Basra Oil Terminal in Iraq, 16 May 2017 [Samuel W. Shavers/Wikipedia]
February 3, 2021 at 1:14 pm
Unknown attackers have stolen computers, money and communications equipment from an Iraqi oil tanker sailing in Iraq's territorial waters,
Anadolu has reported. The MV
Al-Bariq was attacked on Monday evening, explained Kazem Fanjan Al- Hamami MP.
The head of the Iraqi parliament's Services and Reconstruction Committee added that the vessel was off the coast of Basra at the time of the attack, in an area belonging to the Iraqi National Oil Marketing Company SOMO. However, a source at the Iraqi Ports Company told