Iraq said on Thursday it would investigate an attack on an Emirati-owned gas complex in the autonomous Kurdistan region, which disrupted gas supplies and caused power cuts.<\/p>\n
Sabah al-Numan, the military spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister, said in a statement that the caretaker PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani had ordered “the formation of a high-level investigative committee” to look into the attack.<\/p>\n
Numan said “terrorist groups are attempting to undermine the country’s stability”.<\/p>\n
The Khor Mor complex, which supplies most of Kurdistan’s power stations and is owned by the United Arab Emirates firm Dana Gas, has been hit several times in recent years.<\/p>\n
Late on Wednesday, regional authorities in northern Kurdistan said that a drone attacked the facility, cutting off all gas supplies to the region’s power stations.<\/p>\n
Dana Gas said that a rocket attack struck a storage tank at the Khor Mor facility, causing a shutdown in production, but did not cause any casualties.<\/p>\n
AFP correspondents in Kurdistan reported power cuts across the region, including in the city of Sulaimaniyah.<\/p>\n
Iraq has only recently regained a sense of normality after decades of war and turmoil, though it still frequently suffers such attacks.<\/p>\n
Kurdish authorities, who have strong ties to the United States, have previously accused armed groups backed by Iran of conducting drone and rocket strikes within their region.<\/p>\n
Regional Prime Minister Masrour Barzani urged the US on Thursday to provide the region with defensive equipment.<\/p>\n
The regional electricity authority said the attack had disrupted 80 percent of Kurdistan’s power grid.<\/p>\n
If the damage is limited to one storage tank, electricity may be restored within 48 hours, the authorities said.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n
Mark Savaya, the US special envoy to Iraq, condemned the attack which he said had been carried out by “armed groups operating illegally and driven by hostile foreign agendas”.<\/p>\n
“There is no place for such armed groups in a fully sovereign Iraq,” he posted on X.<\/p>\n
Washington has long pressured Iraq to disarm Iran-backed groups and to free itself from Iranian interference.<\/p>\n
Baghdad, which has for years navigated a delicate balancing act between its allies Tehran and Washington, has long been a fertile ground for proxy battles.<\/p>\n
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