BAGHDAD, Feb 1 (NNN-NINA) – A total of five shells struck a military base, housing U.S. forces, in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.
The attack took place in the night, when the shells landed on al-Qayyara air base, south of the provincial capital city of Mosul, the media office affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
There were no human or material casualties by the attack, the statement said.
A security source in Mosul said, Katyusha rockets landed at the perimeter of al-Qayyara air base, without causing casualties.
The attack came a week after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Baghdad, upon request of the Iraqi prominent Shiite leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, in which he called for a scheduled withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, through peaceful means.
The Iraqi parliament passed a resolution, requiring the government to end the presence of foreign forces in Iraq on Jan 5, two days after a U.S. drone strike killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces.– NNN-NINA
