"A group of people affiliated with some armed groups attacked KFC restaurants in Palestine, Karada and Jadriya streets," Rudaw reporter Halkawt Aziz said from Baghdad.
He added that a large number of security forces have been deployed to these streets.
American and British companies in Baghdad have been the target of a series of attacks in recent days, with the American company Caterpillar and the British Cambridge Institute being targeted with explosives overnight on Thursday, without causing casualties or material damage.
Monday’s attack was the third on foreign brands in the past 10 days.
A KFC restaurant branch in Baghdad’s Palestine Street was targeted in late May by two suspects on a motorcycle who “threw a homemade explosive device,” Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement. Days later, a branch of the American company Caterpillar in Jadriya and the British Cambridge Institute in Palestine Street were targeted with sound grenades.
A number of Western brands and companies in the Arab World, including KFC and Caterpillar, have been subject to boycott calls over their alleged links to Israel, with the boycotts particularly slashing the earnings of many popular chains including McDonald’s and Starbucks.
The boycotts are in response to Israel’s deadly military campaign against the Gaza Strip which has killed over over 36,000, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israel’s campaign was in retaliation to a large-scale incursion into southern Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants based in Gaza, which killed over 1,170.
Monday’s attack was the third on foreign brands in the past 10 days.
A KFC restaurant branch in Baghdad’s Palestine Street was targeted in late May by two suspects on a motorcycle who “threw a homemade explosive device,” Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement. Days later, a branch of the American company Caterpillar in Jadriya and the British Cambridge Institute in Palestine Street were targeted with sound grenades.
A number of Western brands and companies in the Arab World, including KFC and Caterpillar, have been subject to boycott calls over their alleged links to Israel, with the boycotts particularly slashing the earnings of many popular chains including McDonald’s and Starbucks.
The boycotts are in response to Israel’s deadly military campaign against the Gaza Strip which has killed over over 36,000, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israel’s campaign was in retaliation to a large-scale incursion into southern Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants based in Gaza, which killed over 1,170.
