{"id":53248,"date":"2019-12-04T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53248"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:22:15","slug":"five-rockets-hit-airbase-housing-u-s-troops-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53248","title":{"rendered":"Five Rockets Hit Airbase Housing U.S. Troops In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Five rockets hit an airbase that houses U.S. troops, in Iraq&#8217;s western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rockets struck the Ain al-Asad airbase, where hundreds of U.S. troops are stationed, but caused no casualties, the media office, affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, said, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It gave no further details, but added that, more information would be released later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. Vice President, Mike Pence, paid an unannounced visit to the airbase on Nov 23, to meet with the U.S. troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pence&#8217;s visit came at a time when Iraq witnessed anti-government protests, demanding comprehensive reform of the political system and early elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 5,000 U.S. troops have been deployed in Iraq, to support Iraqi forces in the battles against Daesh militants, mainly providing training and advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The troops are part of the U.S.-led international coalition that has been conducting air raids against Daesh targets in both Iraq and Syria.&#8211; NNN-NINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Five rockets hit an airbase that houses U.S. troops, in Iraq&#8217;s western province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said. The rockets struck the Ain al-Asad airbase, where hundreds of U.S. troops are stationed, but caused no casualties, the media office, affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, said, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}