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2 Americans were killed in a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq on Wednesday (file image).
The United States has actually released retaliatory air campaign versus a pro-Iranian militia group in Iraq, after a rocket attack eliminated 2 of its soldiers.
The strikes targeted five weapons storage centers throughout the country, the United States defence department stated.
Two Americans and a British soldier were killed in Wednesday’s rocket attack on the Camp Taji military base.
Previously, a United States leader said an Iranian-backed militia group was likely to have fired the rockets.
” The Iranian proxy group Kataib Hezbollah is the only group understood to have previously conducted an indirect fire attack of this scale versus United States and coalition forces in Iraq,” Central Command chief Gen Kenneth McKenzie informed a Senate committee.
In a declaration on Thursday night, the defence department confirmed that a series of “protective accuracy strikes” were performed by manned aircraft against Kataib Hezbollah facilities.
” These include facilities that housed weapons utilized to target US and coalition troops,” it said. “[The strikes] were defensive, proportional, and in direct action to the threat postured by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups.”
” The United States will not endure attacks against our people, our interests, or our allies,” Defence Secretary Mark Esper included. “We will take any action needed to protect our forces.”
The US has implicated Iran-backed militias of 13 comparable attacks on Iraqi bases hosting coalition forces in the past year.
The killing of an American civilian in one such occurrence in December set off a round of violence which eventually led Mr Trump to buy the assassination of the leading Iranian basic Qasem Soleimani and Kataib Hezbollah commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis the following month.
What’s the background?
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