16/7/2025–|Last update: 23:27 (Mecca time)
Declare Iraqi KurdistanToday, Wednesday, attacks with car bombs on 3 oil fields in Dohuk Governorate, after a series of similar attacks recently targeted energy facilities.
The “Anti -Terrorism Agency” in the region explained this morning that an attack by two car bombs targeted an oil field affiliated with a Norwegian company in Duhok Governorate in northern Iraq, as well as a similar attack on another field of the company.
In a statement, the Norwegian company “DNO” announced the suspension of its operations in the two fields due to the three explosions that affected “a small storage tank in Takuki and superficial processing equipment in Bishkhabor.”
In this way, 5 oil fields in Iraqi Kurdistan have been attacked by enlightenings this week, while Wednesday’s attacks came in the day after an attack on an oil field managed by an American company in Erbil Governorate that led to the suspension of work in it.
The Ministry of Natural Resources in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has condemned the “intensity of these attacks”, which it said aims to strike the economic infrastructure of the region and create risks to the safety of civilian employees in the oil sector, explaining that it “caused great damage to the fields of fields.”
The ministry called “all relevant authorities in the federal government and the international community to intervene as quickly as possible to protect the lives of civilian employees and energy security and prevent more attacks on the oil sector in Kurdistan.”
The two oil fields in the Kurdistan region of Iraq were subjected to attacks with drones, which constitutes a direct threat to the interests of the Iraqis, and an attack on the state’s efforts to consolidate stability and advance the wheel of development.
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In recent weeks, Iraq, especially the Kurdistan Region, has witnessed several attacks with enlightenings and missiles that the authorities did not define the authorities behind them, while the Iraqi Prime Minister ordered Muhammad Shi’a Al -Sudani Yesterday, by opening an immediate and expanded investigation to determine the parties behind the attacks.
The authorities of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq also announced the shooting down of a car bomb plane last Monday near the Erbil International Airport, while two correspondents later targeted the Khouraa oil field in Erbil Governorate.
On July 3 Popular Mobilization Forces By carrying out an attack in Misrara near the Erbil International Airport, which includes a base for the forces International Alliance Under the leadership of Washington to fight ISIS.