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Added on the 16/01/2024 09:27:46 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Smoke billows on the horizon in the village of Altrun Kupri, in the Sherawa region, south of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan, where a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party is located. Two people were killed in Iranian cross-border strikes against military bases in Iraqi Kurdistan belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, according to the KDPI. Iranian artillery fire has hit border districts of Iraqi Kurdistan on several occasions in recent days. The fire comes amid tensions generated by the death in Iranian morality police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini earlier this month after she was arrested in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict rules on hijab headscarves and modest clothing. IMAGES
The United States condemns recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against "anti-Iranian terrorist groups." "We do condemn those strikes. We've seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in just the past couple of days," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Firefighters are seen at the site of a fire that broke out at the Qaysari bazaar in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region. IMAGES
Cars drive through flooded water during heavy rainfall in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region. IMAGES
People gather at the scene after six people were killed in Israeli strikes on an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. IMAGES
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