Iraq: five rockets target a base housing Americans

Five rockets targeted an Iraqi air base housing Americans in Iraq on Sunday evening.

Of the five rockets fired in the evening at the Balad base, north of Baghdad, two crashed into a dormitory and a canteen of the American subcontractor company Sallyport, a security source told AFP. without first specifying whether the shots had caused any casualties.

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F-16 planes are stationed at the Balad base, north of Baghdad, and various companies are present there for maintenance with Iraqi and foreign employees.

One of them, an Iraqi, was injured in a similar attack on the base on February 21.

The attack was not immediately claimed, but Washington regularly accuses Iraqi armed groups close to Iran, the enemy of the United States, of targeting its troops and diplomats in Iraq.

In total, around twenty bomb or rocket attacks have targeted bases housing American soldiers or American diplomatic representations since Joe Biden came to power at the end of January.

And dozens more have taken place since fall 2019 under Donald Trump's administration.