Iraqi Kurdish Oil Refinery Refusing to Help Trump Fight Iran Hit by Drone

JAKARTA - A drone attack hit an oil refinery in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq in Duhok Province.

A local security source quoted by the Reuters news agency said the Iraqi Kurdish residents' energy source was located in the Sarsang oil field.

The drone hit the oil refinery on Wednesday, April 1 local time.

According to the Iraqi National News Agency, the incident occurred after an attack targeting the Iraqi Kurdish oil depot in Erbil, the capital of the region.

It is not yet known where the attack came from.

Previously, Kurdish residents in northeastern Syria warned Iranian Kurdish groups not to get involved in the US-Israeli attack against Iran.

The warning came after President Donald Trump's efforts to persuade Iranian Kurds to help the US confront Iran in early March 2026.

Separately, the leader of the Iraqi Kurds, Bafel Talabani, said his party and the Iranian Kurds would not carry out cross-border military operations to help the US-Israel attack Iran.

Talabani also alluded to the popular movement that was touted by Western media to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran regime amid the US-Israeli attacks. According to him, the Iranian people who love and live in their country have a high nationalistic spirit and are not easily divided by the issue.

"You could argue that it is actually detrimental. Iranians, like others, are very nationalistic people, and I believe that, if they fear that Kurds coming from elsewhere will cause division or separation of their country, this can actually unite them against the movement," Talabani told Anadolu, March 7, 2026.