28-03-2024 07:21 PM Jerusalem Timing

ISIL Claims Deadly US Consulate Blast in Iraq

ISIL Claims Deadly US Consulate Blast in Iraq

The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group claimed Saturday a bombing near the US consulate in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region a day earlier that killed two Turks

The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant terrorist group claimed Saturday a bombing near the US consulate in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region a day earlier that killed two Turks.
  
"Security detachments were able to... detonate a car bomb left at the American consulate building in the city that led to the killing and wounding of many of them," ISIL said in a daily audio message posted online.
  
But the US State Department said the bombing in Ainkawa, near Kurdish regional capital Arbil, did not kill or wound any consular employees. Saman Barzanchi, the head of the Arbil health department, said Saturday that two ethnically Kurdish Turks were killed and eight people wounded.
  
Officials had said Friday three people were killed.