"A number of missiles fell on the town of Erbil," mentioned governor Omid Khoshnaw, quoted by the Iraqi information company INA.A US official mentioned the missiles have been launched on Sunday from neighbouring Iran.Early stories urged there have been no US navy casualties, a senior US defence official mentioned.The governor mentioned it was not clear …
A US official mentioned the missiles have been launched on Sunday from neighbouring Iran.
Early stories urged there have been no US navy casualties, a senior US defence official mentioned.
The governor mentioned it was not clear whether or not the meant goal was the US consulate or the airport, the place there’s a base for the US-led coalition preventing the Islamic State group.
An AFP correspondent in Erbil heard three explosions.
Native tv channel Kurdistan24, whose studios will not be removed from the US consulate, posted pictures on social networks of its broken places of work, with collapsed sections of false ceiling and damaged glass.
The well being ministry in Erbil mentioned there had been no casualties.
The airport mentioned it had suffered no injury and flights had not been disrupted.
“We condemn this terrorist assault launched in opposition to a number of sectors of Erbil, we name on the inhabitants to stay calm,” Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani mentioned in an announcement.
US pursuits and coalition troops in Iraq have repeatedly been focused in rocket and armed drone assaults.
Western officers have blamed hard-line pro-Iran factions for the assaults, which have by no means been claimed.
In late January, six rockets have been fired at Baghdad Worldwide Airport, inflicting no casualties.
Iraq noticed a surge in these form of assaults initially of the yr as Iran and its allies commemorated the second anniversary of the demise of Iranian common Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, killed by American drone hearth in Iraq in January 2020.
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