Iran strikes Iraqi Kurdistan again, warns of possible ground operation
Several areas of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were targeted overnight after an IRGC commander warned of possible ground invasion and the Iranian ambassador set out demands.
ERBIL, Iraqi Kurdistan — A massive orange fireball lit up the sky in an area outside the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on the night of Nov. 20-21, as sirens sounded at the US Consulate within the city itself.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 21, reports trickled in of rockets and drones that had targeted several areas of the autonomous region bordering Iran to its east.
The attacks came amid surging tensions across the region.
During a recent visit to Baghdad, the commander of the Quds Force in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Esmail Ghaani, threatened a military ground operation in the Kurdistan Region if "the Iraqi army does not fortify the countries’ shared borders against Kurdish opposition groups," the Associated Press reported Nov. 18.
