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Iraq

Suicide drone targets Erbil; no casualties

2025-07-30

[Rudaw] An explosive-laden drone crashed in Erbil’s western Khabat district on Monday morning, resulting in no casualties, Kurdish counterterrorism forces reported.

"On Monday morning at 05:50, an explosive-laden drone crashed in the Rizgari subdistrict of Khabat district in Erbil province," said the Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT.

No casualties were reported.

The Kurdistan Region has come under nearly 20 rocket and drone attacks in recent weeks, including strikes on its oil fields. The Kurdish government has blamed Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) for the attacks - charges strongly denied
No, no! Certainly not!
as "unacceptable" by Baghdad.

The Khabat district is the site of the Kawergosk oil refinery, one of the largest in the Kurdistan Region, operated by the Iraqi-Kurdish oil company KAR Group.

The dronezaps have greatly reduced the Kurdistan Region’s oil output, especially at a time when Kurdish oil exports through the Iraq-~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

<del>The Sick Man of Europe</del> Turkey

...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
member, but not the most reliable...
pipeline - halted since March 2023 - are on the brink of resumption.

The United States, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
, as well as several other international and local actors, have condemned the attacks. Baghdad has launched an investigation but has yet to announce the results, and last week’s extraordinary Iraqi parliament session failed to discuss the matter after Kurdish politicians boycotted the sitting.

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