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Attack on Iraq gas complex disrupts supply to region’s power plants, authorities say

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Attack on Iraq gas complex disrupts supply to region’s power plants, authorities say

An Emirati-owned gas complex in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region was attacked on Sunday, disrupting the gas supply to the region’s power plants, local Kurdish authorities said. “At 11pm, the Khor Mor gas field came under a terrorist attack,” the regional natural resources and electricity authorities said in a statement, without elaborating.

A Kurdish security source told Agence France-Presse that an “explosive-laden drone” hit the field. The Khor Mor complex, which supplies most of Kurdistan’s...