Iraq, Turkey spar at UN Security Council over Duhok attack

UNITED NATIONS, 28 July 2022, (TON): UN Security Council members have backed Iraq’s demand for a major investigation into a deadly July 20 artillery attack on a tourist area popular with Iraqis in the mountainous Duhok governorate of the Kurdistan region that left at least nine people dead and 23 others wounded.

Backing for the inquiry comes only days after the Security Council unanimously condemned the attack in the strongest terms.

However, council members did not mention Turkey during the emergency meeting late that was sought by Iraq and the UAE to discuss the attack.

Baghdad summoned Turkey’s ambassador to condemn what it described as a “heinous crime committed by the Turkish troops, which has topped its continuous aggressions on the sovereignty of Iraq and its territories.”

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