President Donald Trump painted a simplistic picture for the US operation in Venezuela: go in, get the oil and start exporting. But Big Oil’s experience in post-invasion Iraq proved that the reality will be far more complicated.

Baghdad says it will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal

The discussion centered on Iraq accepting up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria, a move that could spark controversy within the country.

Lukoil's West Qurna 2 project was under the earlier service contract agreements. The deal was one of the first projects signed by Iraq with oil firms after the U.S. invasion in 2003, and pays among the smallest returns among all Iraqi contracts, industry sources say.

Warning: Disturbing content. Viewer discretion advised. An American military force is in the Middle East after President Donald Trump said he was watching Iran "very closely". The armada arrives as new reporting suggests the number of people killed in recent protests is far higher than first thought.