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Iraq

Three Rockets Hit Iraqi Taji Military Base

2020-07-28

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

THREE ROCKETS HIT IRAQI TAJI MILITARY BASE THAT HOSTS U.S.-LED COALITION TROOPS, NO CASUALTIES REPORTED - MILITARY STATEMENT
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaOne) July 27, 2020

#Update #BreakingNews

Newly emerged Usbat al-Thaereen (Revolutionary League) militia group has reportedly claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on #Taji #Iraq. IRGC/“axus of resistance )linked telegram channels shared
— Nafiseh Kohnavard (@nafisehkBBC) July 27, 2020

Rudaw adds:

A spate of Katyusha rockets targeted Taji military base, which hosts US troops, north of Baghdad on Monday night, a US official confirmed to Rudaw English.

The official says that "four Katyusha rockets" hit the base without causing any casualties.

Like other sites hosting foreign troops, the base has been a frequent target of rocket attacks, blamed most commonly on Iran-backed Iraqi militias.

The Iraqi security media cell also released a statement following Monday’s attack, claiming that three Katyusha rockets landed on site.

The rockets landed inside the Iraqi section of the Taji military base, according to the media cell statement, which says that one rocket caused "serious damages" to an Iraqi military warplane.

The second and third rockets landed in an Iraqi security force weapons warehouse and near the Iraqi warplanes section respectively, according to the statement.

"The Iraqi security forces will continue hunting down the perpetrators of such attacks," the Iraqi security media cell added.

Located north of Baghdad, Taji hosts US military personnel to advise and train Iraqi troops in the fight against the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).

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