UN condemns ‘reckless’ Iraq rocket attack as US weighs response

Washington, European allies promise to hold attackers accountable but say it is too early to know who is responsible.

The United Nations has warned tensions in Iraq could escalate after a rocket attack killed a foreign contractor for the US military and wounded at least 14 others in Erbil.The raid  was condemned by the United States and its European allies. The attack in the Kurdish regional capital of northern Iraq late on Monday was the first in nearly two months which was directed at Western military or diplomatic installations in Iraq, after a series of similar incidents blamed on pro-Iranian Shia factions. “Such heinous, reckless acts pose grave threats to stability,” the UN’s top representative in Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert wrote on Twitter, calling for “restraint” on all sides.