BAGHDAD, Sept 9 (NNN-NINA) – A security personnel was killed, three others and a truck driver were wounded yesterday, in two roadside bomb explosions, targeting convoys of trucks belonging to the U.S.-led coalition, in the south and north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
In one attack, a roadside bomb went off near a convoy of vehicles carrying logistical support for the international coalition, on the highway between the provinces of al-Qadsiyah and Babil, in the south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement.
The blast struck an Iraqi military vehicle escorting the convoy, leaving a security personnel dead and two others wounded, the statement said.
Another explosion struck a second convoy belonging to a company contracted by the U.S.-led coalition forces in al-Nebai area, some 60 km north of Baghdad, destroying two vehicles and wounding a security personnel and a truck driver, the JOC said, in a separate statement.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks, but unidentified militant groups have frequently targeted civilian convoys supplying U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, which usually travel from Kuwait to the coalition bases in central and northern Iraq.
The attacks came, as Iraqi-U.S. relations witnessed a tension since Jan 3, when a U.S. drone struck a convoy at Baghdad airport, which killed Qassem Soleimani, former 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
