Strikes kill nine Iranian Kurdish rebels in Iraq: opposition group

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: Drone and rocket strikes killed nine members of an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group in Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Friday, the exiled party said, blaming the attack on Iran. In Irbil, the capital of Kurdistan, the US-led anti-jihadist coalition shot down several drones and AFP journalists heard loud explosions in the city. The attacks, which the Kurdish government also blamed on Tehran, come against the backdrop of renewed military escalation between the United States and Iran, Iraq’s main allies.

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