Militants cause oil output of 175,000 barrels a day to halt Fires still burning at two tanks in Bai Hassan oil facility Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq regained control of an oil field near Kirkuk, after Islamic State militants overran the facility, setting fire to two storage tanks and causing crude production of 175,000 barrels a day to be halted. “The Peshmerga killed two Daesh suicide attackers who seized the Bai Hassan field this morning, a third blew himself up, and there is a search for others,” the Kurdish armed forces said in an e-mailed statement, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State. “The situation is now under near-total control but the fires are still burning at the oil storage tanks.” Five Kurdish soldiers and one oil worker were wounded in the clashes, the Peshmerga said. Earlier, the Iraqi petroleum police said production at the facility had been […]