US wages a series of air strikes against Iranian-backed militia in Iraq that it blames for killing two American troops and a British soldier
This photo released by the government-affiliated Media Security Cell on Thursday, 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.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper, in a Pentagon statement detailing the strikes, cautioned that the United States was prepared to respond again, if needed.Trump had been quick to authorize the US military to respond following Wednesday's attack in Iraq, in which militants fired dozens of 107 mm Katyusha rockets from a truck, striking Iraq's Taji military camp north of Baghdad.
The US military drone strike in January that targeted Soleimani also killed Kataib Hezbollah founder Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. Iran retaliated for the US drone strike that killed Soleimani by launching missiles from its territory at an Iraq base hosting US troops - leaving more than 100 US forces with brain injuries.
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