Drone Strike Hits Hunt Oil Field in Iraqi Kurdistan

A suicide drone struck an oilfield operated by Dallas-based Hunt Oil near the city of Dohuk in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday, according to security officials cited by Reuters. The unmanned aircraft, identified by one source as an Iranian-made Samad model, hit the Badra field in the Shekhan district, marking the second attack on the same site within hours. The incident is the latest in a string of drone and rocket strikes targeting energy infrastructure across Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days. While there were no immediate reports of casualties or production outages, the repeated assaults have heightened concerns about the security of foreign-run oil assets in the region, a key export corridor for Iraq’s northern crude. Regional authorities have not yet named a perpetrator, and Hunt Oil has not commented.