Kurdish authorities reported that among the places hit by the missiles were the city's American consulate and a residential neighbourhood.

[1] According to one US official, the targets encompassed buildings where a Mossad cell was suspected of operating, according to a conversation with an Iraqi counterpart.

[7] In reality, the missiles targeted the villa of Baz Karim Barzanji, CEO of KAR Group, a company aimed to supply Turkey and Europe with gas.

[13] The ballistic missiles struck the target at 1:20 a.m., the same time of the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

[15] Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr responded to the attack by tweeting "The territory of Iraq from south to north, and east to west should not be part of conflicts and that Iraq's "involvement" in conflicts was a dangerous precedent, while calling on the competent authorities to immediately send a protest letter to the United Nations and additionally to summon the Iranian ambassador.