ametad Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 KIRKUK, Iraq — A rocket slammed into an Iraqi base where American troops are stationed in the remote province of Kirkuk, Iraq's military and a US security source told AFP on Thursday night. It was the latest in a string of nearly 20 rocket attacks since late October on US troops stationed across the country as well as on the American embassy in Baghdad. According to three separate Iraqi security sources, the Katyusha rocket hit an open area on the K1 base at around 8:45pm local time (1745 GMT). Both US troops and Iraqi federal police forces are stationed there but neither sustained casualties, according to a statement from Iraq's military. It said security forces found the launch pad from which the rocket was fired, with 11 more rockets still inside, but the perpetrators were on the run. An Iraqi security source told AFP that the launch pad was found about five kilometres (three miles) from the base, in a multi-ethnic area. It was the first attack on K1 since December 27, when a volley of around 30 rockets killed a US contractor there and unleashed a dramatic escalation. Washington blamed the rockets on Kataeb Hezbollah, a hardline Iraqi military faction close to Iran, and conducted retaliatory strikes that killed 25 of the group's fighters. Supporters of the group then surrounded the US embassy in Baghdad, breaking through its outer perimeter in an unprecedented breach. Days later, a US drone strike at Baghdad airport killed Iran's pointman on Iraqi affairs Qasem Soleimani and his right-hand man, Kataeb Hezbollah co-founder Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. In outrage, Iraq's parliament voted to oust all foreign forces from the country, including around 5,200 US troops deployed to help local forces beat back remnants of the Islamic State group. Iran carried out in own strikes in response to Soleimani's killing, firing a barrage of ballistic missiles at the sprawling Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq on January 8. The troops had prior warning and none were killed, but more than 100 have since been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/rocket-attack-hits-north-iraq-base-hosting-us-troops-security-sources/ar-BBZYmLz?li=BBnb7Kz 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinarThug Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Katyusha rocket landed inside the "K1" base in Kirkuk by EditorIraq News 3 Hours ago Kirkuk - “Liberation Yards” Our correspondent reported the fall of the Katyusha rocket inside the "K1" base in Kirkuk, which hosts American soldiers this evening. A missile base was found carrying 12 missiles, one missile was fired towards "K1", and 11 missiles had not yet been found. He pointed out that the missile base was found in the popular work area near the Christian Cemetery, while a specialized team was sent with a detachment of "K9" to take the necessary action. LINK 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trident Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 Middle East Rockets land near US embassy, base housing coalition troops in Baghdad Kurdistan 24 | 4 hours ago The site of an earlier attack on a facility housing US forces. (Photo: Archive) Iraq Baghdad US Iran PMF ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – In yet another attack on facilities in Iraq housing American personnel, a number of rockets landed early Sunday near the US embassy and an Iraqi military base where members of the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition are stationed. “The Coalition confirms small rockets impacted the Iraqi base hosting @CJTFOIR troops in the International Zone, February 16 at 3:24 a.m. (Iraq Time),” Coalition Spokesman Col. Myles B. Caggins III said in a social media post, using the term the US military uses to refer to the fortified Green Zone. He also reported that no casualties had been sustained and that an investigation into the incident was ongoing. Witnesses reported to Kurdistan 24 that they had seen multiple aircraft flying above the city afterward, as is common with such security incidents. A statement from the Iraqi military communications center, known as the Security Media Cell, said that, out of four Katyusha rockets that had been fired, three had landed inside the Green Zone. The fourth one, the statement explained, had fallen near a facility belonging to Iranian-backed militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Palestine Street in the northern part of the capital, severely damaging a vehicle. The statement affirmed that there had been no human casualties. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, as is usually the case after such incidents. However, Washington has, on multiple occasions, accused PMF militias of being behind them. The strike comes just three days after a previous one hit another Iraqi base hosting US forces located outside the disputed city of Kirkuk. ***-for-tat escalations soon resulted in PMF members and supporters storming the US embassy in the Baghdad, torching parts of it. Washington responded to this move by assassinating a top Iranian general, Qasim Soleimani, as well as a senior Iraqi PMF commander. This culminated in the Jan. 8 Iranian missile strike on the Ayn al-Asad airbase that resulted in over 100 American servicemen suffering traumatic brain injuries. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly minimized the impact of the injuries without an explanation satisfactory to multiple US veteran groups. Since then, there have been other attacks on bases hosting US forces as well as others on or near the US embassy in Baghdad. On Saturday, a powerful Tehran-backed militia group, the Harakat Hizbollah al-Nujaba, circulated a montaged video that showed edited photos of coffins covered with US flags and placed on the road next to the Baghdad airport where the two top generals were killed. Editing by John J. Catherine 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregp Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 It won’t be long.... 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 26 minutes ago, gregp said: It won’t be long.... It is all coming to a head this year, Iran, Iraqi people and the GOI. I thinking that this does not go past June. 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
"Fred" Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 28 minutes ago, ChuckFinley said: It is all coming to a head this year, Iran, Iraqi people and the GOI. I thinking that this does not go past June. Morning Chuck,I’m with you on June and it doesn’t sound much different for our government,if what some news people are saying is true it sounds like the democrats ship is sinking with all the lies and everything else and to top it off they have Bernie and Pete leading the pack. It will be interesting to see whole charade around the world plays out. Trump 2020 1 2 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckFinley Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 For sure , I think 2020 will be our Year. It is more of the outside forces forcing the GOI to do something than the GOI being competent. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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