Aerial View of U.S. Oil Storage Facility in Iraq Burnt by Drone Strike

Aerial photographs show damage to the office complex and warehouses used by U.S. oil-services company Halliburton after a drone attack in Basra, Iraq, on Saturday, 7 March 2026. Halliburton, the U.S.-based oil services firm, said the facility burned following the drone strike on Friday, 6 March 2026 local time. The facility targeted is located in southern Iraq, a key hub of the country’s oil industry. The buildings appear to be burnt to the ground. The attack on Halliburton suggests that Iran and its proxies in the Middle East are not willing to bow to orders from U.S. President Donald Trump. Rather than submitting, they launched strikes at several strategic points across the region that host the U.S. and Israel. Iran said on Friday, 6 March 2026, that it had fired a series of drones and missiles at Israel, on the seventh day of the Middle East war that began with the U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic.