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Vintage Chicago Tribune: The International Livestock Exposition
Carl Sandburg called the city “Hog butcher for the world” — and was awarded a $200 prize — for his 1914 poem “Chicago.”
For stock men and women, cowboys, college students and even 4-H Club kids, Chicago was the destination of top prizes for their pampered farm animals (which were then sold at auction for meat) from the United States and Canada. People from around the world gathered here every November or December for 75 years to attend the International Livestock Exposition — except for when it was canceled in 1914-15 due to a prevalence of foot and mouth disease.
Just after Thanksgiving in 1899, representatives from the Union Stock Yards, packing companies and live stock associations met to organize the first International Live Stock (yes, two words) Exposition with plans to host an inaugural show at Dexter Park Pavilion (next to the stockyards at 42nd and Halsted streets) the following December. The hope was to lure South American buyers away from the famous centuries-old Smithfield Market in London so they would buy meat from the United States — and namely Chicago — instead.
With the stock market booming, Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist John T. McCutcheon imagined the sights and sounds of the crowd during the 26th annual International Live Stock Exposition for the newspaper’s front page on Dec. 1, 1925. (Chicago Tribune)
The Tribune noted, “the ‘circus’ features of former shows will have no place. An incidental feature of the exhibition will be the introduction of a sort of pure food show.”
A 10-point list proposed the exposition would include: a judged exhibition of cattle, hogs and sheep; a display of draft horses used for utility — not show; animal husbandry practices; the latest technology used in packing houses and government inspection of meats; appliances for transporting animals and meetings for breeders and stockmen’s associations.
The first exposition opened on Dec. 1, 1900, and more than $50,000 (or more than $1.6 million in today’s dollars) in prizes were awarded for cattle, swine and sheep. Nightly parades of animals, a fair for horses and hay, corn and grain shows soon became part of the annual festivities. By 1905, more than 550,000 people attended the weeklong convention. President Calvin Coolidge visited the exposition in 1924, and by 1928 the daily events were broadcast nationwide by NBC radio. A young couple who met at the event through 4-H married there in 1931. The exposition was also a boon to local merchants who welcomed the thousands of participants into their stores just before the holidays.
When the second-biggest fire in Chicago history destroyed the Pavilion and 90% of the Union Stock Yards in 1934, a replacement structure — the International Amphitheatre — was completed in fewer than six months so the exposition could open on time.
After the stockyards closed in 1971, the livestock show’s days were numbered. Lack of money and dwindling attendance forced its cancellation in 1976. The Amphitheatre, which hosted the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Beatles’ first Chicago concert, was demolished in 1999.
Here’s a visual look back at highlights from the exposition’s glory days, handpicked from the Tribune’s archives.
Weigher Bernard Coyne checks Bernice Hayden and her 4-H steer Mickey Mischief on the scale on Dec. 2, 1939, at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. (Burgess/Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Billy Nimmo, 20, from left, Stephen Mosher, 17, and Phillip Baylor, 16, from Cuba, Illinois, are part of the crop judging champion team at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago on Dec. 6, 1939. (Burgess/Chicago American)
A six-horse team that excites spectators nightly at the horse show, which is part of the international Live Stock Exposition in Chicago at the International Amphitheatre in 1939. The horses are exhibited by the Hawthorn Mellody Farms Dairy of Lake County. (Chicago Herald-American)
Jack Mariner, 15, of Prairie City, Illinois, sleeps with Oscar, a Southdown sheep, on Dec. 1, 1939, at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. (Chicago American)
Judge Everett W. Norcross shows Mildred Ray of Kentucky, from left, Lavona Brezee of South Dakota and Wilma Jalmeland of South Dakota why this wheat was selected as the world’s best on Dec. 4, 1939, at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. (Bob Rea/Chicago American)
Wilbert Holtkamp, of Salem, Iowa, with his Shorthorn steer named Lee at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago in 1939. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
A woman washes an animal in preparation for the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago in November 1939. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Sue White, 18, and her great big steer, both from Texas, receive top honor at the 54th annual International Live Stock Exposition on Dec. 1, 1953, in Chicago. White, of Big Spring, Texas, almost fainted as her 1,000-pound senior calf was named grand champion of the show. (Harold Borvig/Chicago American)
A big hug is given to Ellard Pfaelzer by Sue White, 18, after he bought her grand champion steer, Lone Star, in 1953 at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. Pfaelzer made the purchase on behalf of Congress Hotel owner Albert Pick, left, who holds the champion ribbon. (Bill Allison/Chicago American)
Nancy Turner, of Champaign, who exhibited the previous year’s grand champion at the International Live Stock Exposition, makes a “V” for victory sign as she holds her black Angus steer, H.J., with which she hopes to repeat her victory in November 1956 in Chicago. Turner named this steer with the initials of the man who bought her prize winner last year. (Chicago American)
Outside the International Amphitheatre, animals are walked at night for exercise as part of the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago in November 1973. (Frank Hanes/Chicago Today)
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Barcelona busca superar el mal trago ante Chelsea con su duelo ante el Alavés en La Liga
Por JOSEPH WILSON
BARCELONA (AP) — Después de su humillante derrota ante Chelsea, el Barcelona espera poder volver a la senda de la victoria cuando reciba el sábado al Alavés en La Liga española.
Una victoria le dará al Barça la oportunidad de colocarse por encima del líder Real Madrid en la clasificación del torneo doméstico un día antes de que el equipo de Xabi Alonso visite a Girona.
El Barça aprovechó un par de tropiezos del Madrid para cerrar la brecha a un punto en La Liga, antes de que el equipo de Hansi Flick se desmoronara en una derrota el martes 3-0 en Chelsea en la Liga de Campeones.
“Tenemos que aceptar la derrota, pero veo muchas cosas positivas para los próximos partidos”, afirmó Flick.
Partidos clave
El enfoque de Flick estará en mejorar una defensa que quedó en evidencia en Londres, claramente echando de menos el liderazgo y solvencia de Íñigo Martínez, quien se fue a Arabia Saudí el verano pasado.
El lateral derecho Jules Koundé fue el autor de un autogol y el defensa central Ronald Araújo fue expulsado antes del descanso.
El partido contra Alavés será el segundo para el Barça en un Camp Nou que aún está en renovación. El fin de semana pasado venció 4-0 al Athletic Bilbao en su primer partido en su estadio en más de dos años.
Alavés ha perdido tres de sus últimos cuatro partidos de liga, y dos consecutivos, situándose en el 14mo puesto.
Después de Alavés, el Barça tendrá tres días de descanso antes de recibir al Atlético de Madrid en otro partido de liga entre aspirantes al título.
Pero el Madrid también ha tenido problemas en defensa. Necesitó de un póker de Kylian Mbappé para asegurar una victoria el miércoles por 4-3 de visita a Olympiakos en la Champions.
Antes de eso, el Madrid había empatado contra Elche y Rayo Vallecano en La Liga y perdió 1-0 en Liverpool en Europa.
Villarreal se mantiene cerca de los líderes. Está a tres puntos del Madrid antes de visitar a la Real Sociedad el domingo.
Jugadores a seguir
Los aficionados del Barcelona estarán atentos a Lamine Yamal, esperando que tenga otra actuación destacada después de que fue anulado en el partido contra Chelsea por Marc Cucurella, quien fue juvenil con el Barça.
Mbappé apunta a aumentar su cuenta de goles ante un Girona amenazado por el descenso. La estrella francesa lidera La Liga con 13 tantos y la Liga de Campeones con nueve.
Fuera del campo
El Barça tiene previsto celebrar elecciones presidenciales para elegir una nueva junta ejecutiva el próximo verano, y dos candidatos rivales han dicho recientemente que se postularán contra el actual presidente Joan Laporta.
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Deportes AP: https://apnews.com/hub/deportes
The Way We Were: Downtown fire station on Jefferson Avenue closed in 1992
This photo from November 1981 shows the city of Naperville’s downtown fire station on Jefferson Avenue. It operated there from 1956 to 1992, according to Naperville Heritage Society records.
White House Tells Reporter To “Shut The F**k Up” for Saying National Guard Should “Never Have Been” In DC
White House Tells Reporter To “Shut The F**k Up” for Saying National Guard Should “Never Have Been” In DC
The left’s addiction to reflexively blaming conservatives was on full display this week as New Yorker writer Jane Mayer used the ambush shooting of two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday to criticize the troops’ presence rather than condemn the alleged attacker, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
Mayer took to X within an hour of the broad daylight attack, while the wounded servicemen were still in critical condition, claiming the essential deployment “unnecessary.”
“This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed,” the anti-Trump journalist wrote. “I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost.”
This is so tragic, so unnecessary, these poor guardsmen should never have been deployed. I live in DC and watched as they had virtually nothing to do but pick up trash. It was for political show and at what a cost. https://t.co/ABkOHNHAvG
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) November 26, 2025
Mayer’s tweet drew instant fury from the White House, including Rapid Response X account branding the New Yorker writer a “sick, disgusting ghoul,” while affirming that the National Guard had “saved countless lives.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung was even more fire and brimstone, writing, “Jane, respectfully, shut the fuck up for trying to politicize this tragedy. They were protecting DC and trying to make the nation’s capital safer.”
Jane, respectfully, shut the fuck up for trying to politicize this tragedy.
They were protecting DC and trying to make the nation’s capital safer.
People like you who engage in ghoulish behavior lose all credibility. Not like you had any to begin with. https://t.co/DzVX7Adg96
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) November 27, 2025
The National Guard’s presence was part of a necessary federal effort initiated when President Donald Trump ordered their deployment, along with other federal agents, starting August 11, after declaring a “crime emergency” to restore public safety. The intervention was demonstrably effective, according to D.C. police data. Combined violent crime dropped by 49% (from 180 to 92 incidents) in the 19 days following the deployment, compared to the same period the previous year.
However, the focus quickly shifted from Mayer to a deeper, more alarming national security failure.
Lakanwal was a former “partner force member” who worked with U.S. government entities, including the CIA. Federal sources characterized the calculated act against American personnel as a deliberate “ambush attack.”
Former CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed Lakanwal arrived in the U.S. just a month after then-President Joe Biden’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under “Operation Allies Welcome,” specifically because of his prior CIA affiliation.
“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Ratcliffe told Fox News.
“The individual—and so many others—should have never been allowed to come here,” Ratcliffe added. “Our citizens and service members deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden administration’s catastrophic failures.”
Shortly after the attack, Trump vowed the responsible “animal” would “pay a very steep price.”
“The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being critically wounded, and now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a very steep price,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “God bless our Great National Guard, and all of our Military and Law Enforcement. These are truly Great People. I, as President of the United States, and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am with you!”
Tyler Durden
Thu, 11/27/2025 – 14:45
Desarticulan en Brasil entramado de evasión fiscal y lavado de dinero por 4.800 millones de dólares
Por GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA
SAO PAULO (AP) — La policía brasileña lanzó el jueves un operativo para desarticular un entramado de evasión fiscal y lavado de dinero en el sector de combustibles.
El grupo bajo investigación es el mayor deudor fiscal del país, debiendo más de 26.000 millones de reales (4.800 millones de dólares), indicaron las autoridades.
Las autoridades locales y estatales llevan a cabo 126 órdenes de registro e incautación contra individuos y empresas en cinco estados. Según la Receita Federal de Brasil, la organización utilizó sus propias empresas, fondos de inversión y entidades extraterritoriales para ocultar y proteger ganancias.
Las autoridades no nombraron a ninguna persona o empresa objetivo, pero medios locales reportaron que las operaciones bajo investigación involucran a Grupo Fit, una refinería de combustible. Grupo Fit no respondió de momento a una solicitud de comentarios de The Associated Press.
El ministro de Finanzas, Fernando Haddad, dijo que los operativos del jueves se derivan de una reciente ofensiva contra los vínculos criminales con la cadena de suministro de combustible de Brasil. En agosto, las autoridades señalaron 40 fondos de inversión del sector de combustibles supuestamente utilizados para ocultar activos para miembros de la organización criminal Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC).
El PCC es el grupo de crimen organizado más grande y poderoso de Brasil. Fue fundado en 1993 por criminales endurecidos dentro de la Penitenciaría de Taubaté en Sao Paulo para presionar a las autoridades a mejorar las condiciones carcelarias. Rápidamente comenzó a usar su poder para dirigir operaciones de narcotráfico y extorsión en el exterior. En los últimos años, la banda ha diversificado sus carteras de inversión en varios mercados ilícitos.
Haddad dijo que las investigaciones desde entonces han identificado un patrón de fuga de capitales que incluía la apertura de fondos de inversión en Estados Unidos. Las autoridades federales señalaron que identificaron más de 15 entidades extraterritoriales con sede en Estados Unidos enviando aproximadamente 1.000 millones de reales (186 millones de dólares) de regreso a Brasil para comprar participaciones accionarias y bienes raíces.
Los sospechosos establecieron operaciones de lavado de dinero en Delaware, que el ministro de Finanzas calificó como “un paraíso fiscal en Estados Unidos” utilizado para “un serio esquema de triangulación internacional”. Una de las últimas operaciones del grupo involucró 1.200 millones de reales (223 millones de dólares) enviados a fondos en ese estado estadounidense, añadió.
“El entramado funciona así: se emiten préstamos a estos fondos —préstamos que se sospecha nunca se reembolsan— y el dinero luego regresa a Brasil como supuestas inversiones legales en actividades económicas. Pero el dinero enviado al extranjero no es legítimo”, explicó Haddad.
Haddad dijo que prometió al presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva buscar una cooperación internacional más profunda con Estados Unidos contra el crimen organizado y el lavado de dinero, en medio de negociaciones arancelarias con el presidente estadounidense Donald Trump. ____
Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
President Donald Trump criticizes program that brought Afghan refugees to US who fought the Taliban
The man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington is one of about 76,000 Afghans brought to the United States after the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. from their country as the Taliban took over, authorities said.
Suspect in National Guard shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
The program, called Operation Allies Welcome, was created after the 2021 decision to leave Afghanistan following 20 years of American intervention and billions of dollars of aid.
Democratic President Joe Biden, who oversaw the withdrawal started by his predecessor — Republican President Donald Trump — said the U.S. owed it to the interpreters and translators, the fighters and drivers and others who opposed the Taliban to give them a safe place outside of Afghanistan.
But others — including Trump and many Republicans — said the refugees were not properly vetted in a resettlement process they said was as chaotic and poorly planned as leaving the country to the Taliban.
“This individual — and so many others — should have never been allowed to come here. Our citizens and servicemembers deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden Administration’s catastrophic failures,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said.
Accused shooter worked with CIA before coming to US as refugee
The accused shooter, identified by law enforcement officials as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, worked with the CIA “as a member of a partner force in Kandahar,” Ratcliffe said in a statement Thursday. It didn’t specify what Lakanwal did for America’s spy agency.
The Kandahar region in southern Afghanistan was in the Taliban heartland of the country and saw fierce fighting between the Taliban and NATO forces after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 following the al-Qaida attacks on Sept. 11. The CIA relied on Afghan staff for translation, administrative and front-line fighting with their own paramilitary officers in the war.
Little is known about Lakanwal’s four years in the U.S. or why he drove across the country from his home in Bellingham, Washington, where a former landlord said he lived with his wife and five children.
Lakanwal was granted asylum in April under the Trump administration, according to #AfghanEvac, a group of veterans and others working to get Afghans who helped the U.S. out of the country in exchange for their help.
Like all asylum seekers, he would have had to undergo fingerprinting and iris scans, a full background check and interview and a risk assessment, the organization said.
Operation Allies Welcome brought tens of thousands of Afghans to the US
Groups that help resettle Afghans said the actions of one man shouldn’t reflect negatively on the tens of thousands who have gone through the various legal pathways to resettling in the U.S. and the others who find themselves in limbo after Trump suspended almost all resettlement programs for nations across the world when he took office in January.
“I don’t want people to leverage this tragedy into a political ploy,” said Shawn VanDiver, president of #AfghanEvac.
After leaving Afghanistan, tens of thousands of those seeking resettlement ended up in sprawling air-conditioned tent villages at military bases like Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in central New Jersey, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin or at Fort Bliss in Texas.
After months of health screenings and background checks many were resettled in established Afghan communities in northern Virginia and the surrounding Washington area, as well as Northern California and Texas. States where between 1,000 and 3,000 have settled include Arizona, New York, Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Nebraska and Pennsylvania, according to State Department data.
Trump stops aid for resettlement after taking office
Trump’s executive order shortly after taking office in January suspending federal funding for resettlement agencies made it tougher to help refugees with basic necessities like food and rent handcuffing the mostly religious groups that help them.
The president, who has described Afghanistan as “a hellhole on earth,” already planned to review every Afghan who entered the country under Operation Allies Welcome and reiterated that goal after Wednesday’s shooting.
“If they can’t love our country, we don’t want them,” Trump said in a message released on social media, adding that the shooting was “a crime against our entire nation.”
Trump administration wants to shut the door to most refugees
Trump also used his message to attack refugees from Somalia who have settled in Minnesota, saying they are “ripping apart that once-great state.”
It’s part of this administration’s goal both to deport people in the country illegally and close the country to most refugees. Trump said he wants to remove anyone “who does not belong here or does not add benefit to our country.”
One of the Afghans who made it to the U.S. was Mohammad Saboor, a father of seven children, worked as an electrician and A/C technician with international and U.S. forces for 17 years. He resettled earlier this year in California and told The Associated Press he looked forward to sending his kids to school and giving back to the country that took his family in.
“I believe that now we can live in a 100% peaceful environment,” Saboor said.
Associated Press journalists Eric Tucker and Martha Bellisle contributed.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/trump-criticizes-program-afghan-refugees-taliban/
Fuzzy Zoeller, the 2-time major champion haunted by a racist joke about Tiger Woods, dies at 74
Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf’s most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died, according to a longtime colleague. He was 74.
A cause of death was not immediately available. Brian Naugle, the tournament director of the Insperity Invitational in Houston, said Zoeller’s daughter called him Thursday with the news.
Zoeller was the last player to win the Masters in his first attempt, a three-man playoff in 1979. He famously waved a white towel at Winged Foot in the 1984 U.S. Open when he thought Greg Norman had beaten him, only to defeat Norman in an 18-hole playoff the next day.
But it was the 1997 Masters that changed his popularity.
Woods was on his way to a watershed moment in golf with the most dominant victory in Augusta National history. Zoeller had finished his round and had a drink in hand under the oak tree by the clubhouse when he was stopped by CNN and asked for his thoughts on the 21-year-old Woods.
“That little boy is driving well and he’s putting well,” Zoeller said. “He’s doing everything it takes to win. So you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not to serve fried chicken next year. Got it?”
He smiled and snapped his fingers, and as he was walking away he turned and said, “Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.”
That moment haunted him the rest of his career.
Zoeller apologized. Woods was traveling and it took two weeks for him to comment as the controversy festered. Zoeller later said he received death threats for years after that moment.
Writing for Golf Digest in 2008, he said it was “the worst thing I’ve gone through in my entire life.”
“If people wanted me to feel the same hurt I projected on others, I’m here to tell you they got their way,” Zoeller wrote. “I’ve cried many times. I’ve apologized countless times for words said in jest that just aren’t a reflection of who I am. I have hundreds of friends, including people of color, who will attest to that.
“Still, I’ve come to terms with the fact that this incident will never, ever go away.”
It marred a career filled with two famous major titles, eight other PGA Tour titles and a Senior PGA Championship among his two PGA Tour Champions titles.
More than winning was how he went about it. Zoeller played fast and still had an easygoing nature to the way he approached the game, often whistling between shots.
He made his Masters debut in 1979 and got into a three-way playoff when Ed Sneed bogeyed the last three holes. Zoeller defeated Sneed and Tom Watson with a birdie on the second playoff hole, flinging his putter high in the air.
“I’ve never been to heaven, and thinking back on my life, I probably won’t get a chance to go,” Zoeller once said. “I guess winning the Masters is as close as I’m going to get.”
Zoeller was locked in a duel with Norman at Winged Foot in the 1984 U.S. Open, playing in the group behind and watching Norman make putt after putt. So when he saw Norman make a 40-footer on the 18th, he assumed it was for birdie and began waving a white towel in a moment of sportsmanship.
Only later did he realize it was for par, and Zoeller made par to force a playoff. Zoeller beat Norman by eight shots in the 18-hole playoff (67-75).
Zoeller’s lone regret was giving the towel to a kid after he finished in regulation.
“If you happen to see a grungy white towel hanging around, get it for me, will you?” he once said.
He was born Frank Urban Zoeller Jr. in New Albany, Indiana. Zoeller said his father was known only as “Fuzzy” and he was given the same name. He played at a junior college in Florida before joining the powerful Houston golf team before turning pro.
His wife, Diane, died in 2021. Zoeller has three children, including daughter Gretchen, with whom he used to play in the PNC Championship. Zoeller was awarded the Bob Jones Award by the USGA in 1985, the organization’s highest honor given for distinguished sportsmanship.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/27/fuzzy-zoeller-golfer-masters-dies/
Portugal conquista el título del Mundial Sub17 tras vencer 1-0 a Austria
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Portugal atrapó el título de la Copa Mundial Sub17 tras vencer el jueves 1-0 a Austria en la final de un torneo de 48 naciones donde los equipos europeos acapararon los tres primeros lugares.
Anísio Cabral, delantero del Benfica, evitó con lo justo quedar en posición adelantada para recibir un pase frente al marco y anotar a placer a los 32 minutos.
Fue el séptimo gol de Cabral en el torneo, uno menos que Johannes Moser, el austriaco que fue proclamado como el mejor jugador del torneo.
Fue el primer título Sub17 de Portugal y llegó en la vigésima edición de un torneo que la FIFA ha ampliado y ahora organiza anualmente en lugar de cada dos años.
Qatar organizó esta edición y también será anfitrión en cada uno de los próximos cuatro años.
Más temprano en Doha, el portero Alessandro Longoni atajó dos penales para que Italia derrotase 4-2 a Brasil en una tanda de penales tras un empate 0-0 en el partido por el tercer lugar.
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Tribunal condena a expresidente peruano Pedro Castillo a 11 años por conspiración, tras intento de cierre del Congreso
LIMA (AP) — Tribunal condena a expresidente peruano Pedro Castillo a 11 años por conspiración, tras intento de cierre del Congreso.
Drone Strike Hits Major Iraqi Kurdistan Gas Field, Plunging Region Into Darkness
Drone Strike Hits Major Iraqi Kurdistan Gas Field, Plunging Region Into Darkness
A drone attack targeted a major natural gas field in Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday, causing injuries to workers and major power cuts across the region.
“A drone struck a key gas storage facility at the field, causing extensive damage, and a fire is still burning,” a worker told Reuters in the aftermath of the attack.
Large blazes at the Khor Mor Oil and Gas Field in Northeastern Iraq
All gas supplies to power stations in the Kurdistan region were halted following the attack on the Khor Mor gas field, causing widespread power outages, including in Erbil.
Firefighting teams were still working to contain the blaze that injured several workers. A field engineer speaking with Reuters estimated the damage to the main liquid-gas storage depot would take several days to repair.
The Khor Mor field is operated by the Pearl Consortium, which includes UAE-based Dana Gas and its affiliate Crescent Petroleum.
The Iraqi central government’s Security Media Cell said the field was hit in a “treacherous terrorist” attack and vowed to pursue those responsible. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
A separate drone targeted the field on Sunday but was shot down by Iraqi Kurdish security forces before it struck. The Kurdistan Region’s Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani, blamed the attack on “outlaw groups” and urged partners from the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) to provide the Kurdistan Region with “defense systems against such terrorist attacks.”
Aziz Ahmad, deputy chief of staff to the Kurdistan Region’s prime minister, claimed that “terrorists on the federal government’s payroll” were responsible for the drone strike, in an apparent reference to Shia armed groups known as the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
⚡️BREAKING
A drone has just struck the Khor Mor oil and gas field in Iraq
It is largely operated by companies from the United Arab Emirates pic.twitter.com/eU5ABDJIko
— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) November 26, 2025
The PMU is part of the Iraqi resistance that fired drones and missiles at Israel in response to the genocide in Gaza that began in October 2023.
On November 4, a massive explosion at the PMU headquarters south of Baghdad killed one person amid reports of Israel preparing a new front with the country to target Iran-backed resistance groups.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 11/27/2025 – 14:00
