Posted on 03/11/2020 4:34:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
An American soldier, a British soldier and one US contractor were killed on Wednesday in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base hosting foreign troops, a US official told AFP.
Hours later, air strikes believed to have been carried out by the US-led coalition targeted Iran-aligned Iraqi fighters in neighboring Syria.
On Wednesday evening, a volley of rockets hit the Taji air base north of Baghdad, which hosts troops from the US-led coalition helping local forces battle jihadists.
A coalition official first told AFP the force had sustained "several" injuries on Wednesday ranging from "light to critical," but a US military official later confirmed three deaths.
The Iraqi military said the rockets were fired from the back of a truck, but it did not comment on any casualties.
There was no initial comment from Washington or London on those killed, nor was there an immediate claim of responsibility.
Washington has blamed Iran-backed factions from Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi military network, which is incorporated into the Iraqi state, for similar violence in the recent past.
Within hours of Wednesday's attack, three warplanes likely belonging to the US-led coalition bombed Hashed factions stationed on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Ten explosions shook the area near Albukamal," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman, citing a Syrian border town with a heavy Hashed presence.
Reports said that at lest 18 members of the pro-Iranian militia were killed in the US retaliatory air strike.
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Kill em All and let Allah sort em out.
Sad to hear this.
No talk about attacking Iran tonight....
Eliminate Tehran this stuff stops.
Liberate Khuzestan, and this stuff would go unfunded and justice would be served.
Why are we still there? It makes no sense. Thanks to Bush and Obama, we are leaving good people to be targets and accomplishing nothing.
OLD ARTICLE. Look at the date of it.
“12/03/2020 is European for “March 12, 2020” They do it different over there.
Here is another article:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51842744
No... look again. It can’t be old if it’s still months in the future. That’s just a different style of writing the date. Americans are fairly unique in using mm/dd/yy, other countries use dd/mm/yy
Thanks for the information. My eyes are tired so I though the 12/03/2020 was actually 12/03/2019 as a typo.
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