Rockets target US troops

Sulaimaniya/Mosul: Iranbacked militias launched rockets targeting US troops that landed near Erbil airport in the semiautonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a Kurdish security agency said yesterday, hours after Iraq’s premier pledged to protect foreign missions.

Iraqi Kurdistan’s counterterrorism service blamed the attack on the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), an umbrella grouping of mostly Iranbacked Iraqi Shi’ite militias that is part of Iraq’s armed forces. — Reuters