ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—A few minutes after midnight, the news room in Rudaw’s head office in Erbil was calm as people were finishing their shift and preparing to go home. Suddenly, a loud explosion rocked the building. About six or seven gunshots closely followed.

Unknown perpetrators threw a grenade at the Rudaw building from a moving car. Three of Rudaw's security guards, Hersh Akram, Huner Maroof, and Ahmed Munhim, one of Rudaw's drivers, Nashwan Xarib, and a member of Rudaw’s public relations staff, Xalil Rashid, were injured.

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