Iraqi Prime Minister: Investigation launched into attack on Kurdish autonomous region's oil facilities.

On the 23rd local time, the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office issued a statement stating that Prime Minister Sudani had previously expressed in a conversation with US Secretary of State Pompeo that key infrastructure and oil facilities in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq, Salahaddin Province, and Kirkuk Province have been attacked recently, seriously threatening the country's economic security. Currently, the Iraqi security forces are conducting an investigation in cooperation with the international coalition to combat the extremist organization "Islamic State", tracking the source of the attacks. Sudani specifically mentioned in the conversation that these attacks occurred at a time when the Iraqi Ministry of Oil was signing investment agreements with American oil companies operating in the region, involving cooperation in several oil fields in Kirkuk and Salahaddin, and he was "surprised" by the timing of the attacks.