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Rocket attack hits northern Iraq base hosting US troops
[Aljazeera] A rocket attack has slammed into an Iraqi base in the remote province of Kirkuk where US troops are stationed, security sources said.There were no immediate reports of casualties, AFP news agency citing Iraqi and US security sources reported on Thursday. Three separate Iraqi security sources told AFP that the Katyusha rocket hit the K1 base at around 8:45pm local time (1745 GMT) and US military aircraft immediately began flying low over the area. It was the first attack on the K1 base since December 27, when a volley of about 30 rockets killed a US contractor there, which Washington blamed on Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi military faction close to Iran. The US then carried out retaliatory attacks that killed 25 Kataib Hezbollah fighters. Days later, another strike killed the head of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah cofounder, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-14 |
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