15 rockets hit in an Iraqi military base with international presence
More than 15 Katyusha-type rockets landed Wednesday without causing casualties inside the Taji military base, about 30 kilometers north of Baghdad and where international troops are deployed, various sources reported.
The spokesman for the international coalition to fight the Islamic State (IS), Colonel Myles B. Caggins III, indicated in his Twitter account that more than 15 "small" projectiles hit the military base at about 19:35, local time (16:35). GMT) and specified that what happened is being investigated.
The source confirmed that alliance troops are deployed in Taji, without specifying which countries.
For its part, the Iraqi Security Information Cell confirmed on the same social network that the impacts did not cause damage or victims and detailed that a vehicle loaded with a rocket launcher has been seized in an area near the base, on the other side of the Tigris River.
The department added that three shells that had been loaded into the rocket launcher were found at the scene and released photos showing a white truck with the machinery placed at the rear.
As is often the case with this type of action, no group has yet claimed authorship.
After the escalation of tension between the United States and Iran in the region earlier this year, rocket attacks against the Green Zone of the capital and military bases with a US presence happened almost daily, but in recent weeks they had subsided.
Tension rose in Iraq on January 3, when Iranian General Qasem Soleimaní and other senior Iraqi militia commanders were killed in a US bombing in Baghdad, to which Tehran responded by launching missiles at two bases in the that US forces were prominent.
