Iraq said on Wednesday that it had been notified by Iran that Tehran had launched a retaliatory strike against U.S. troops in Iraq to avenge the killing of top Iranian military commander Qassim Soleimani, while oil majors continue to evacuate personnel out of Iraq. Amid the tension in the region, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) evacuated some 20 employees from the West Qurna-1 oilfield in Iraq operated by ExxonMobil, a CNPC source based in Beijing told Reuters on Wednesday. After the killing of Soleimani, Chevron, too, pulled all of its American oil workers out of Northern Iraq. Late on Tuesday, which was in the early hours Iraqi time on Wednesday, Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops. Oil prices surged by 4 percent on the news, but had given up most of those gains by early morning U.S. time on […]