Zack Kopplin

The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.

A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster

Amid a global oil collapse, the military is overpaying politically connected contractors to keep its jets fueled in Iraq.

Other targets of Trump's strikes were “bad dudes” … as well as recipients of American payoffs in the Iraq War.