ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Monday’s attack in Kirkuk’s Musala neighborhood was directed against an Iraqi counterterrorism convoy, according to local police. This statement comes after a Turkmen Front politburo member claimed on Monday that their headquarters had been attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). "Kirkuk's security situation is good and what happened yesterday was merely an armed attack on an Iraqi counterterrorism convoy in the Musala neighborhood," Khatab Omer, the director general of Kirkuk's police told Rudaw. The attack late on Monday night was claimed to have been directed at the Turkmen Front headquarters. “The attacks were via rockets, and there was no loss of life. We are not aware of any other security incident in Kirkuk yesterday," Omer added. Aydin Maruf, a politburo member of the Turkmen Front and Kurdistan Parliament MP, explained that there was an exchange of gunfire. “In the Turkmen area of Musala in western Kirkuk, the Turkmen Front headquarters were attacked with an RPG. Later clashes erupted between the guards and the attackers,” he told Rudaw. Last week, in what was described as an ISIS ambush by the Iraqi Prime Minister, 27 Iranian-backed Hashed al-Shaabi members died.
