ARBIL: “Twelve ballistic missiles” fired from exterior Iraq on Sunday focused the capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil, and the US consulate there, Kurdish safety forces mentioned.
“The missiles have been fired exterior the borders of Iraq and Kurdistan, (coming) extra exactly from the east,” a press launch from the Kurdistan counter-terrorism unit said.
The assault induced some materials harm however no casualties, it added.
US pursuits and coalition troops in Iraq have often been focused in rocket and armed drone assaults.
They’ve by no means been claimed, however Western officers have blamed them on hard-line pro-Iran factions demanding the departure of US troops.
Iran shares a protracted japanese border with Iraq, and wields appreciable political and financial affect with its neighbour.
Washington mentioned there was “no harm or casualties at any US authorities facility”.
“We condemn this outrageous assault and show of violence,” a State Division spokesperson mentioned.
Native tv channel Kurdistan24, whose studios aren’t removed from the US consulate, posted photos on social networks of its broken places of work, with collapsed sections of false ceiling and damaged glass.
Arbil’s airport mentioned it had suffered no harm and flights had not been disrupted.
It homes a base for the US-led coalition preventing the Islamic State group.
“We condemn this terrorist assault launched in opposition to a number of sectors of Arbil, we name on the inhabitants to stay calm,” Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani mentioned in an announcement.
The well being ministry in Arbil mentioned there had been no casualties.
Iraq noticed a surge in rocket and armed-drone assaults originally of the 12 months as Iran and its allies commemorated the second anniversary of the dying of Iranian basic Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, killed by American drone fireplace in Iraq in January 2020.
In late January, six rockets have been fired at Baghdad Worldwide Airport, inflicting no casualties.
Sunday’s assault on Arbil comes practically every week after two officers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been killed in Syria in a strike attributed to key US ally Israel.
The Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic republic’s ideological military, vowed revenge on Israel for the assault.
“The missiles have been fired exterior the borders of Iraq and Kurdistan, (coming) extra exactly from the east,” a press launch from the Kurdistan counter-terrorism unit said.
The assault induced some materials harm however no casualties, it added.
US pursuits and coalition troops in Iraq have often been focused in rocket and armed drone assaults.
They’ve by no means been claimed, however Western officers have blamed them on hard-line pro-Iran factions demanding the departure of US troops.
Iran shares a protracted japanese border with Iraq, and wields appreciable political and financial affect with its neighbour.
Washington mentioned there was “no harm or casualties at any US authorities facility”.
“We condemn this outrageous assault and show of violence,” a State Division spokesperson mentioned.
Native tv channel Kurdistan24, whose studios aren’t removed from the US consulate, posted photos on social networks of its broken places of work, with collapsed sections of false ceiling and damaged glass.
Arbil’s airport mentioned it had suffered no harm and flights had not been disrupted.
It homes a base for the US-led coalition preventing the Islamic State group.
“We condemn this terrorist assault launched in opposition to a number of sectors of Arbil, we name on the inhabitants to stay calm,” Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani mentioned in an announcement.
The well being ministry in Arbil mentioned there had been no casualties.
Iraq noticed a surge in rocket and armed-drone assaults originally of the 12 months as Iran and its allies commemorated the second anniversary of the dying of Iranian basic Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, killed by American drone fireplace in Iraq in January 2020.
In late January, six rockets have been fired at Baghdad Worldwide Airport, inflicting no casualties.
Sunday’s assault on Arbil comes practically every week after two officers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been killed in Syria in a strike attributed to key US ally Israel.
The Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic republic’s ideological military, vowed revenge on Israel for the assault.
