TFS Operation Black Mountain Zeus
Channel: Gavin Kruger
Date: 2023-07-04

MAP: Lythium | BLUFOR: ION | OPFOR: ISIS Insurgents | GREENFOR: Kurdish Peshmerga

Following U.S.–led airstrikes against the IS in August 2014, the Kurdish Peshmerga took over the oil fields in northern Iraq, and subsequently, the KRG resumed operations at Kandar and Ramir. The KRG–administered oil in northern Iraq is exported through the KRG–built independent pipeline, which connects the Kirkuk area and other northern fields and KalaeNoowie refinery. Following the independence referendum in late 2017, the central government of Iraq retook the Limar fields.

Our Contract finishes next month - we have been working and training with KRG (Kurdish) forces defending the oil fields for several years now and we want to be invited back. ISIS have been stepping up their game in the region: targeting oil fields that flow back to the all-too-profitable KalaeNoowie Refinery. 

US Intel is advising that the significant uptick in IEDs, Bombings, and Ambushes are all probes into our local security, and may be a precursor to a larger attack. IEDs are too numerous, so we will be restricted to moving via air as a QRF. 

Here's to a peaceful day, but be ready for anything.