{"id":45628,"date":"2021-02-16T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/02\/16\/rocket-attack-in-erbil-just-weeks-before-papal-visit\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:26:00","slug":"rocket-attack-in-erbil-just-weeks-before-papal-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/02\/16\/rocket-attack-in-erbil-just-weeks-before-papal-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket attack in Erbil just weeks before papal visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last attack of this scale took place last September. This video, taken in a residential area of Erbil, shows the explosion from one of the 14 rockets fired last night.<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the video, most of the rockets were neutralized before reaching a U.S. military base in Iraqi Kurdistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still, a spokesman from the base confirms one civilian contractor was killed and nine others wounded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group sympathetic to Iran has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>It comes at a sensitive time for Pope Francis, who is scheduled to visit the region from March 5th-8th. His security during his visit will be handled by Iraq\u2019s counter terrorism and secret services.<\/p>\n<p>The pope\u2019s visit is unanimously supported in Iraq, and viewed with hope by the government as an opportunity to bring visibility to the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before the attack, Shiite political leader Al Sadr released a statement welcoming the Pope to Iraq.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On his visit, Pope Francis is scheduled to meet with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, an influential spiritual leader of Iraq and Iran's majority Shia Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>JMB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16, 2021. 14 strikes killed a civilian contractor and left several others wounded at a U.S. military base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kqL56K9cCFU","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/battaccoerbileng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/battaccoerbilint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}