BAGHDAD, March 24 (Reuters) – At least six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and 30 wounded in a rocket attack on their base north of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Peshmerga statement and security sources said on Tuesday. A Peshmerga statement accused Iran of carrying out a “treacherous attack,” saying six Iranian ballistic missiles struck […]
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Rocket attack kills six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Iraq’s Kurdistan, sources say
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BAGHDAD, March 24 (Reuters) – At least six Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were killed and 30 wounded in a rocket attack on their base north of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Peshmerga statement and security sources said on Tuesday.
A Peshmerga statement accused Iran of carrying out a “treacherous attack,” saying six Iranian ballistic missiles struck a Peshmerga military headquarters north of Erbil early on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Andrew Heavens)