Kawigosk refinery was also near April 6 rocket strikes KRG has condemned attacks as intimidation from Iran Kurdish government aims to export gas to Turkey Six rockets struck the Khabat district in northern Iraq’s Erbil province, near one of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region’s largest oil refineries May 1, causing a fire in one of the big tanks that was later contained, in the latest attack targeting energy infrastructure in the country.
The rockets were meant to impact power supplies in the region, Iraq’s security forces said on Twitter. “This evening six Katyusha rockets targeted an area in Khabat district in western Erbil province,” a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government, or KRG, said on Twitter. “The attack resulted in no casualties or material damages. The rockets were originated from Bartella town in Nineveh province.” […]