WASHINGTON — No less than three individuals have been killed, together with two U.S. service members, in a rocket assault in Iraq, a U.S. official stated Wednesday.
The official stated 10 individuals have been injured. A number of different U.S. officers confirmed that U.S. troops had been killed and injured, however didn't provide numbers. The officials spoke on situation of anonymity to offer particulars of the attack forward of the general public announcement.
Military Col. Myles Caggins, a U.S. army spokewman in Iraq, stated on Twitter that more than 15 small rockets hit Iraq’s Camp Taji base. He offered no details.
Camp Taji, situated just north of Baghdad, has been used as a training base for a variety of years. There are as many as 6,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, coaching and advising Iraqi forces and conducting counterterror missions.
Officers did not say what group they consider launched the rocket attack, however Kataib Hezbollah or another Iranian-backed Shia militia group is probably going.
Kataib Hezbollah was liable for a late December rocket assault on a army base in Kirkuk that killed a U.S. contractor, prompting American army strikes in response.
That in turn led to protests at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. They have been adopted January three by a U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s strongest army officer, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a pacesetter of the Iran-backed militias in Iraq, of which Kataib Hezbollah is a member.
Kataib Hezbollah been designated a “overseas terrorist group” by the State Division since 2009.
Src: 2 U.S. service members killed in attack in Iraq
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