Success, but more tests, in Basra unrest turnaround In the final months of 2013, Basra’s security forces and oil industry faced a series of challenges unseen in their ferocity and succession since foreign oil companies returned to Iraq.Yet oil production is increasing and exports are on track to follow suit, as southern Iraq looks increasingly safe to operate multi-billion dollar oil development projects, in large part because Iraqi officials moved quickly to contain and quell incidents that could have derailed them.The arrest of police o…