{"id":77943,"date":"2026-04-22T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/77943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:37:08","slug":"huge-explosions-rock-oil-refinery-in-iraqs-erbil-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/77943\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge explosions rock oil refinery in Iraq\u2019s Erbil &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massive explosions <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/visegrad24\/status\/2046883984299200554?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reportedly<\/a> struck an oil refinery in Erbil, the capital of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media appears to show a large fire erupting at the refinery following the blasts, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/explosions-rock-russias-tver-near-oil-depot-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explosions<\/a>, as well as the extent of any damage or possible casualties, has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udca5An oil refinery is on fire in Erbil \u2014 Sabereen News<\/p>\n<p>It is noted that a fire broke out at the plant located in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official statement from the regional and central authorities of Iraq yet. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DAXiNEIcDM\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/DAXiNEIcDM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 News.Az (@news_az) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/news_az\/status\/2046894589840162925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massive explosions reportedly struck an oil refinery in Erbil, the capital of Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan region, on Wednesday. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1111,1985,94,5345],"class_list":{"0":"post-77943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-erbil","9":"tag-explosion","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-oil-refinery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116447926406195189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}