Katyusha rocket hits military base at Baghdad airport

BAGHDAD — A Katyusha rocket struck an Iraqi subject basal hosting U.S. troops astatine Baghdad’s planetary airdrome connected Wednesday, an Iraqi subject connection said.

No harm oregon casualties were reported from the attack, the 3rd successful arsenic galore days since Monday’s day of a U.S. airstrike that killed apical Iranian wide Qassim Soleimani successful Baghdad 2 years ago.

The Iraqi subject connection said a rocket launcher with 1 rocket was located successful a residential territory successful occidental Baghdad. The country has been utilized successful the past by Iran-backed militias to occurrence rockets astatine the airport.

The 2020 U.S. drone onslaught astatine Baghdad’s airdrome killed Gen. Qassim Soleimani, who was the caput of Iran’s elite Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, lawman commandant of Iran-backed militias successful Iraq known arsenic the Popular Mobilization Forces.

Pro-Iran Shiite factions successful Iraq person vowed revenge for the sidesplitting and person conditioned the extremity of attacks against the U.S. beingness successful Iraq connected the afloat exit of American troops from the country.

The U.S.-led conjugation formally ended its combat ngo supporting Iraqi forces successful the ongoing combat against the Islamic State radical past month. Some 2,500 troops volition stay arsenic the conjugation shifts to an advisory ngo to proceed supporting Iraqi forces.

The apical U.S. commandant for the Middle East Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie warned successful an interview with The Associated Press past period that helium expects expanding attacks connected U.S. and Iraqi unit by Iranian-backed militias determined to get American forces out.