Sec State Blinken pledges US support on Erbil attack in discussion with PM Barzani
PM Masrour Barzani (right) during a meeting with US Antony Blinken. (Photo: Archive) WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – “We are outraged by today’s rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a written statement following a phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, late on Monday. Two rockets fell earlier that evening on Erbil International Airport, where the US-led Coalition maintains a military base – one of three to which it has moved troops as it consolidates i...