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Breaking News Missiles Hit Iraq Base Housing US Troops by tinny898(m): 11:25pm On Jan 04, 2020 |
Two mortar rounds hit the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone Saturday and two rockets slammed into a base housing US troops, security sources said, a day after a deadly American strike. The precision drone strike outside the Baghdad airport on Friday killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, top Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a clutch of other Iranian and Iraqi figures. In Baghdad, mortar rounds on Saturday evening hit the Green Zone, the high-security enclave where the US embassy is based, security sources said. The Iraqi military said that one projectile hit inside the zone, while another landed close to the enclave. Sirens rang out at the US compound, sources there told AFP. A pair of Katyusha rockets then hit the Balad airbase north of Baghdad, where American troops are based, security sources and the Iraqi military said. A guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations while in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: AFP Two mortar rounds hit the Iraqi capital’s Green Zone Saturday and two rockets slammed into a base housing US troops, security sources said, a day after a deadly American strike. The precision drone strike outside the Baghdad airport on Friday killed Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, top Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and a clutch of other Iranian and Iraqi figures. In Baghdad, mortar rounds on Saturday evening hit the Green Zone, the high-security enclave where the US embassy is based, security sources said. The Iraqi military said that one projectile hit inside the zone, while another landed close to the enclave. Sirens rang out at the US compound, sources there told AFP. A pair of Katyusha rockets then hit the Balad airbase north of Baghdad, where American troops are based, security sources and the Iraqi military said. Security sources there reported blaring sirens and said surveillance drones were sent above the base to locate the source of the rockets. The US embassy in Baghdad as well as the 5,200 American troops stationed across the country have faced a spate of rocket attacks in recent months that Washington has blamed on Iran and its allies in Iraq. One attack last month killed a US contractor working in northern Iraq, prompting retaliatory American air strikes that killed 25 hardline fighters close to Iran. Tensions boiled over on Friday when the US struck Soleimani’s convoy as it drove out of the airport and US diplomats and troops across Iraq had been bracing themselves for more rocket attacks.
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Re: Breaking News Missiles Hit Iraq Base Housing US Troops by blessingsonflee(f): 11:36pm On Jan 04, 2020 |
Ewwwoo! 1 Like |
Re: Breaking News Missiles Hit Iraq Base Housing US Troops by dumra: 11:52pm On Jan 04, 2020 |
Lord have mercy... What is all this? It is well |
Re: Breaking News Missiles Hit Iraq Base Housing US Troops by Nukilia: 1:18am On Jan 05, 2020 |
Its just small rocket and not a missile |
Re: Breaking News Missiles Hit Iraq Base Housing US Troops by somtookeke(m): 6:14am On Jan 08, 2020 |
Rockets hit Iraq base where US troops are located ............. https://speakersden2..com/2020/01/rockets-hit-iraq-base-where-us-troops.html |
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