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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iraq PM Condemns Turkey after Kurdistan Strike Kills 9 Civilians

20 July 2022, Iraq, Zakho: People crowd outside a hospital in Zakho city, where victims of a Turkish shelling on a tourist resort were admitted. (dpa)

Nine civilians, including at least two children, were killed in a park in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region Wednesday by artillery fire Baghdad blamed on neighboring Turkey, a country engaged in a cross-border offensive.

In an unusually strong rebuke, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi warned Turkey that Iraq reserves the "right to retaliate," calling the artillery fire a "flagrant violation" of sovereignty.

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