New Country Joins Escalating Mideast Conflict with its First Missile Strikes

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards launched missiles at what it called Israel’s “spy headquarters” close to the U.S. Consulate in a northern Iraqi city, state media reported, with the force also claiming to have struck targets associated with ISIS in Syria.

Four civilians were killed and six others injured in Erbil, in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, according to the Kurdish regional government’s security council. The strikes come amid fears across the Middle East of Israel’s war against Hamas turning into a wider international conflagration. It is the first time Iran has launched...