UN slams deadly and 'reckless' Iraq rocket attack
Arbil (Iraq) (AFP) - The United Nations warned Tuesday that tensions in Iraq could escalate after a rocket attack killed a foreign contractor for the US military and wounded at least 14 others in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil. The hail of more than a dozen rockets late Monday was the first attack in nearly two months targeting Western military or diplomatic installations in Iraq after a series of similar incidents blamed on pro-Iranian Shiite factions. "Such heinous, reckless acts pose grave threats to stability," the UN top representative in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, wrote on Twi...