Naft Khana

Naft Khana is an Iraqi town in Diyala Governorate, central Iraq, near the Iraqi-Iranian border. Its population were Kurdish nationality during the Iran-Iraq war. Its residents were displaced according to the Arabization policy. Nearby are oil fields containing oil wells found by British companies after the British occupation in 1924. It is considered one of the richest areas in the Diyala Governorate.

Iraq-Iran war
And it turned into a purely military area, where Iraqi army established camps and headquarters for the border guards, and after the American-Iraqi war, and after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, specifically in the year 2003, Kurdish families began to return to this area, but they found it a barren desert inhabited only by wolves.