Kurdish Security Forces Visit Strike Site of Iranian Missile

Two missiles launched by Iran on January 8, which targeted bases in Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops, landed in the Kurdistan region, local news outlet Rudaw reported.

Rudaw said that one missile landed approximately five kilometers from Irbil International Airport, and did not explode. Another fell near the town of Bardarash, 50 kilometers from Irbil.

Jabbar Yawar, secretary general of the Ministry of Peshmerga, told Rudaw that no casualties had been recorded in the Kurdistan region as a result of the missile strikes.

Iranian state television reported that strikes on Iraqi airbases housing US troops were carried out in the early hours of Wednesday morning local time in retaliation for the killing of the country’s top commander, Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad the previous week.

The US Department of Defense said at least two bases housing US and coalition forces were targeted by at least a dozen ballistic missiles. There were no immediate reports of casualties or the extent of the damage. Credit: Rudaw via Storyful