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Iran Guards confirm missile strikes on Kurd rebels in Iraq
Tehran, Sept 9 (AFP) Sep 09, 2018
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards confirmed Sunday they had launched deadly missile strikes against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq the previous day.

"The terrorists' headquarters... was successfully struck by seven surface-to-surface rockets on Saturday by the missile department of the Guards' aerospace force," it said on its Sepah News website.

A medical official in Iraqi Kurdistan said at least 11 members of an Iranian Kurdish rebel group were killed.


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