At least five rockets fell in northern Iraq, hitting an area near a U.S. embassy in the city in the early hours of Sunday, Iraqi state news agency reported, quoting Erbil’s governor. “Several missiles fell on the city of Erbil,” said governor Omid Khoshnaw, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported. Erbil is the capital city of the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq. “No victims or casualties after Erbil blasts,” Saman Barzanji, health minister in Iraq’s Kurdistan Province, was cited as saying. A spokesman for the Kurdish regional government said there were no casualties. Footage posted on social media shows multiple explosions. The Epoch Times cannot independently verify the footage. “Erbil is under fire … as if Kurds were not Iraqis,” Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Twitter. Sky News Arabia reported that five long-range ballistic missiles targeted the headquarters of a U.S. embassy currently under construction there. According to the outlet, one of …
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