The area of Erbil Airport, where the American military base is located, came under missile fire on Wednesday evening. According to the Al Sumaria TV channel, at least three rockets were fired in this area. No casualties were reported.
According to the Al Sumaria TV station, one of the rockets fell near the headquarters of the Iranian opposition party, while the second fell on an agricultural field, causing a dry grass fire, and the location of the third rocket has not yet been determined. After the shelling, the highway connecting Erbil and Mosul was completely blocked.
As Hoshyar Zebari, former foreign minister of the Arab country, now head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, stated, “this incident is fraught with a new exacerbation that threatens Iraq’s national security. “The same structure is responsible for the missile attacks on Baghdad and Erbil”, – he is convinced.
Coalition troops were not harmed by the shelling, U.S.-led international anti-terrorist coalition spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto said Wednesday.
Iraqi Kurdistan authorities have blamed pro-Iranian Shiite groups for the rocket attacks on the Erbil airport area.