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UN slams deadly and 'reckless' Iraq rocket attack

UN slams deadly and 'reckless' Iraq rocket attack

A volley of rockets targeted the Kurdish regional capital in northern Iraq late Monday, authorities said, as security sources confirmed that at least one hit a military complex hosting US-led coalition troops. The attack was the first time Western military or diplomatic installations have been targeted in Iraq in nearly two months, after a string of such incidents. At around 9:30...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken promises to “hold accountable those responsible”.

UN Slams Deadly And Reckless Iraq Rocket Attack 02/16/21 AT 5:06 PM The United Nations warned Tuesday that tensions in Iraq could escalate after a rocket attack killed a foreign contractor for the US military and wounded at least 14 others in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. The hail of more than a dozen rockets late Monday was the first attack in nearly two months targeting Western military or diplomatic installations in Iraq after a series of similar incidents blamed on pro-Iranian Shiite ...

A little-known Shiite militant group calling itself Saraya Awliya al-Dam, Arabic for Guardians of Blood Brigade, claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.

U.S., Kurds Blame Iran for Deadly Irbil Attack Despite Tehran’s Denials: Sources Paul D. Shinkman © (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) A worker cleans shattered glass on February 16, 2021 outside a damaged shop following a rocket attack the previous night in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. - The United Nations warned Tuesday Iraq could spin out of control after a rocket attack on the Kurdish regional capital Arbil killed a foreign contractor ...

UN slams deadly and 'reckless' Iraq rocket attack

Pope to meet top Shiite cleric Sistani on Iraq visit: cardinal AFP 1/28/2021 AFP © HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI Portraits of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the top Shiite cleric Pope Francis is to meet on his landmark visit, are ubiquitous in Iraq but he never appears in public and rarely accepts visitors Pope Francis is to meet top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani during the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in March, a senior Catholic cleric told AFP on Thursday. Louis Sako, p...

Channels Television   Updated January 28, 2021 Pope Francis will meet top Shia religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in March.   Pope Francis is to meet top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani during the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in March, a senior Catholic cleric told AFP on Thursday. Louis Sako, patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, said it would be a “private visit” between the two religious figures at Sistani’s...