BAGHDAD, May 1 (NNN-NINA) – Two Katyusha rockets hit an air base housing U.S. military experts and agencies, in Iraq’s western province of Anbar yesterday, the Iraqi military said.
The two rockets landed in the evening, in the Ayn al-Asad AirBase, near the town of al-Baghdadi, some 190 km north-west of the capital, Baghdad, causing no casualties, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
The rocket attack came, although Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi had confirmed on Dec 29, 2021, the end of the combat mission of the U.S.-led coalition forces in the country.
Ahmed al-Dulaimi, a colonel from Anbar Operations Command, said that, the Iraqi forces found two rocket launchers several km from the air base and the incident is under investigation.
Also yesterday, an Iraqi soldier was killed and another injured, in a roadside bomb explosion near their vehicle, on the highway near Trebil Border Crossing with Jordan, al-Dulaimi said.
In the eastern province of Diyala, six mortar rounds hit a village at 8.00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT), wounding a woman and causing damage to several houses and civilian cars, according to a statement from Diyala Operations Command.
Over the past few months, Iraqi security forces have carried out deadly attacks against the extremist militants, to crack down on their intensified activities.– NNN-NINA
