Baghdad airport attacked amid increasing security tensions

BAGHDAD – Following the missile attack on Baghdad International Airport a few days ago, which resulted in great material losses, a number of Iraqi officials and heads of parties expressed their strong condemnation, calling on the security services to pursue the perpetrators and hold them accountable. Egypt, Iran and Kuwait also expressed their condemnation of the attack, describing it a destabilizing act of terrorism.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said that the attack expresses frantic attempts to break the prestige of the state and undermine law and order, undermine the achievements of Iraqi foreign policy and defame the interests of the people. Al-Kadhimi pledged to respond decisively to the attack and urged friendly countries not to impose travel restrictions on air transportation to and from Iraq.

In related news and in continuation of the instability in the country, a man and his son and daughter were exposed to an explosion after encountering a remnant explosive of the Iraq War in the province of Babil while they were collecting plastic materials. All three people died.

On the other hand, Shafaq News agency reported that a group of ISIS terrorists in the Mutaibija area of Salah al-Din Governorate launched an attack on a security point affiliated with the Iraqi army, and that the clashes resulted in the injury of three Iraqi soldiers and the killing of a number of terrorists.

In view of the continuing and increasing threat of terrorist organization Islamic State in Iraq, the German Parliament decided to extend the mission of German forces in Iraq for another nine months. The German mission is based on providing training and advice to the Iraqi army and security forces, and enabling them to fight Islamic State.