A new rocket attack against a base in Iraq housing U.S. servicemembers left three American troops wounded, according to a U.S. official.
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A photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on March 12, 2020, shows a rocket-rigged truck launcher after a rocket attack on Camp Taji, a few miles north of Baghdad, in Rashidiya, Iraq. Iraq's military on Thursday said it opened an investigation into the rocket attack that hours earlier killed three servicemen, including two Americans, at an Iraqi base housing coalition forces that has been used as a training base for a number of years.
MORE: US military conducts airstrikes in Iraq in retaliation for rocket attack that killed 2 Americans A rocket attack in December that killed an American contractor triggered a series of events that almost led the U.S. and Iran to the brink of war. That attack led to the U.S. retaliatory airstrikes that targeted five weapons depots belonging to KH that housed weapons similar to the ones used in the deadly attack.
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