Potential threat to Oil facilities and transports as new insurgent group, The White Flags, attempts to establish itself in northern Iraq
Since December 2017, evidence has emerged of a new faction of insurgents operating in northern Iraq. Dubbed the White Flags or White Banners for their symbol – a white banner decorated with the image of a lion head – the group has focused its activities in the region between Baghdad and Kirkuk and in particular around the town of Tuz Khurmatu, which is part of the planned oil-transit route from Iraq to Iran’s Kermanshah refinery.
