{"id":56539,"date":"2019-12-28T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T00:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56539"},"modified":"2019-12-28T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T01:13:53","slug":"shells-hit-military-base-housing-u-s-troops-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56539","title":{"rendered":"Shells Hit Military Base Housing U.S. Troops In Northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Dec 28 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Several shells landed Friday, on a military base that houses U.S. troops in Iraq&#8217;s northern province of Kirkuk, wounding an Iraqi soldier, the Iraqi military and a security source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Several shells landed on K1 military camp in Kirkuk province,&#8221; said a media office, affiliated with Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamid al-Jubouri from Kirkuk&#8217;s provincial police said, &#8220;Five mortar rounds landed in the evening, on a military base named K1, where Iraqi federal police, an army brigade and some U.S. advisers are stationed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mortar attack resulted in the wounding of an Iraqi soldier, al-Jubouri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Military bases, housing U.S. troops across Iraq and the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, have been frequently targeted by insurgents&#8217; mortar and rocket attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Dec 14, the U.S. embassy in Iraq accused Iran&#8217;s proxies of carrying out attacks on Iraqi military bases where U.S. troops are stationed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 5,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Iraq, to support Iraqi forces in battles against the Daesh, mainly providing training and advice to the Iraqi forces.<\/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 28 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; Several shells landed Friday, on a military base that houses U.S. troops in Iraq&#8217;s northern province of Kirkuk, wounding an Iraqi soldier, the Iraqi military and a security source said. &#8220;Several shells landed on K1 military camp in Kirkuk province,&#8221; said a media office, affiliated with Iraqi Joint Operations Command [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":56544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539"}],"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=56539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}