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Statement from the council of Intelligence and Security of Kurdistan-region

The organisers of the 29 September terrorist attacks in Erbil have been arrested; Kurdistan Intelligence and Security officials confirm in a statement released today.

The statement referred to a specialised investigation leading to the arrest, with the assistance of abiding citizens, of a member from the terrorist group, that planned the attacks on the headquarters of Erbil's Asayish; A number of planners and their assistants from "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham" had confessed.

Investigations are continuing, and results will be announced in detail at any given time, with information that it's nearing completion.

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This hostile attack is unjustifiable and cannot be accepted under any pretext. This is yet another instance of such attacks being carried out against the Kurdistan Region


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President Masoud Barzani delivered a video message in Kurdish to Kurds gathered in Bonn, Germany, to celebrate Newroz.