Iran Press/Middle East: The Iraqi Interior Ministry's Security Media Cell announced in a statement that the incident took place in the evening when ten rockets landed on Camp al-Taji, located some 30 kilometers north of Baghdad.
The Katyusha rockets struck al-Taji, located 27km north of Baghdad, on Wednesday 11 March, the Iraqi army reported. The base houses American forces in addition to Iraqi soldiers.
The attack is the latest of several to hit the US and coalition facilities in Iraq within the past several months. Several rockets landed in and around al-Taji in January, injuring a member of Iraq’s security forces, and last week two rockets reportedly struck Baghdad’s Green Zone, setting off alarms at the US Embassy.
Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Iraq following the assassination of Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutions Guards Corps' Quds Force, along with the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and their companions in US airstrike authorized by the US President Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport on January 3.
Two days after the US assassination of Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved a bill demanding the withdrawal of US troops fro Iraqi soil.
Later on January 9, former Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called on the United States to dispatch a delegation to Baghdad tasked with formulating a mechanism for the move.
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