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A drone onslaught connected Wednesday (November 26, 2025) targeted an Emirati-owned state analyzable successful Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, disrupting the state proviso to the region's powerfulness plants, section authorities said.
"At 11:30 p.m. (2030 GMT), a drone attacked the Khor Mor state tract facility, cutting disconnected each state supplies to powerfulness plants," the determination earthy resources and energy authorities said successful a statement.
AFP correspondents successful Kurdistan reported powerfulness cuts crossed the region, including successful the metropolis of Sulaimaniyah.
The Khor Mor state tract lies betwixt the cities of Kirkuk and Sulaimaniyah and supplies astir of the Kurdistan region's power.
Omed Ahmed, the determination energy authorization spokesperson, said the onslaught resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of 2,600 megawatts of electricity, disrupting 80 percent of the region's powerfulness grid.
Authorities said they were coordinating with the United Arab Emirates institution Dana Gas to analyse the onslaught and reconstruct operations.
A section information root told AFP that the onslaught "targeted state retention tanks, causing a large detonation and ample fire".
Iraq's Joint Operations Command, which coordinates betwixt information forces and the military, said the attack, which acceptable occurrence to a large retention tank, did not origin casualties.
It added that the onslaught aims astatine "hindering information and economical stability" successful a state that has conscionable precocious regained a consciousness of stability.
There was nary contiguous assertion of responsibility.
Long plagued by conflict, Iraq often suffers specified attacks.
Unclaimed Katyusha rocket and drone attacks person targeted the Khor Mor analyzable respective times successful caller years. In April 2024, 4 Yemeni workers were killed successful a drone onslaught connected the facility.
Earlier this year, the Kurdistan portion saw a spate of unclaimed drone attacks mostly against oilfields.
