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Kurdish and Iraqi security officials on Wednesday were scrambling to piece together how an almost unknown group with possible ties to Iran was able to carry out a deadly raid in one of Iraq’s safest regions this week.
The two sides are conducting a joint investigation into Monday night’s attack on Erbil Airport that killed a military contractor and wounded an American soldier as well as several others, including nearby civilians.
Officials in Baghdad
said
the militant group had breached the border of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region – once an island of stability and safety in the
post-2003 conflict.