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Eugene

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Wed Sep 28, 2022, 08:56 PM Sep 2022

Thirteen killed in Iraq as Iran attacks Kurdish groups blamed for protests

Source: BBC

Thirteen killed in Iraq as Iran attacks Kurdish groups blamed for protests

By David Gritten
BBC News

28 September 2022

Thirteen people have been killed in Iraq's Kurdistan Region, officials say, as Iran launched missiles and armed drones at what it said were bases of Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.

A pregnant woman was reportedly among those who died in the strikes.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps said it hit "separatist terrorists" who had supported recent "riots".

Anti-government protests have swept across Iran since the death in custody of a Kurdish woman there 12 days ago.

Mahsa Amini, 22, from the north-western city of Saqez, was visiting in Tehran when she was detained by morality police for allegedly violating the strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63058096


Komala party fighters said 10 drones hit buildings in Zargwez, outside the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah

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