.Iranian shelling of Kurdish region of Iraq continues
Baghdad - Iranian shelling of the border areas of the Kurdish autonomous region resumed Saturday at dawn in northern Iraq after a week-long cessation of fire, local Kurdish officials said. No casualties have been reported so far.
In August and during the first two weeks of September, Iranian forces had systematically bombed the border areas with the Kurdish region, targeting the bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Party for Freedom and Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) from Iran.
However, officials and observers in the Kurdish region believe that Saturday's overnight shelling is in response to the arrest of an Iranian national who was visiting the northern city of Sulaymaniyah as a member of an Iranian trade convoy.
US forces had arrested the citizen claiming that he was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - Quds Force. The forces charged him with facilitating the smuggling of weapons into Iraqi territories.
Meanwhile, Gamal Abdullah, spokesman for the Kurdish autonomous region, told Deustche Presse-Agentur
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In August and during the first two weeks of September, Iranian forces had systematically bombed the border areas with the Kurdish region, targeting the bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Party for Freedom and Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) from Iran.
However, officials and observers in the Kurdish region believe that Saturday's overnight shelling is in response to the arrest of an Iranian national who was visiting the northern city of Sulaymaniyah as a member of an Iranian trade convoy.
US forces had arrested the citizen claiming that he was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps - Quds Force. The forces charged him with facilitating the smuggling of weapons into Iraqi territories.
Meanwhile, Gamal Abdullah, spokesman for the Kurdish autonomous region, told Deustche Presse-Agentur
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