Middle East
Coalition forces announce casualties in attack on Erbil airport
US-led anti-Daesh coalition says 1 civilian contractor dead, 5 other contractors, 1 US service member wounded
16.02.2021 - Update : 16.02.2021
Security forces take measures after two rockets landed inside the Erbil International Airport, which has a military base for US-led international coalition forces, the Counter-Terrorism Service in Erbil, Iraq on February 15, 2021. ( Yunus Keleş - Anadolu Agency )
BAGHDAD, Iraq
The US-led anti-Daesh coalition announced early Tuesday that a civilian contractor was killed and a US service member was wounded along with five other contractors in a rocket attack near Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq.
The attack is the second of its kind in the last six months after unidentified assailants targeted the airport in September with six rockets. There were no casualties.
Authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region had accused the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Forces, of carrying out last year’s attack.
*Writing by Ahmet Gencturk
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