Middle East Monitor:

Iran yesterday renewed its artillery attacks on Iraqi villages and border towns north of the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, causing fires in forest areas and other material damages and displacing dozens of families.

Kurdish media outlets quoted security sources in the Peshmerga as saying that “the Iranian artillery shelling targeted the Horani area within the Soran district, north of Erbil” without causing casualties.

The Iraqi-Kurdish security sources said the new attack also targeted the Sidekan and Balkayti sub-districts of the Soran district, north of Erbil.

According to the same sources, the Iranian artillery shelling targeted the vicinity of the village of Saqar and the Barzein region, as well as the villages of Kostansirek, Halkurt and Burma Sardi in the regions of Sidekan also known as Bradost and Balkayti.

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