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At least four rockets were launched late on July 25 at Ain al-Asad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, where American troops are known to be deployed.
Two security sources told Al-Arabia English that two rockets landed inside the air base and two others struck its perimeter.
A United States official also confirmed to the Saudi-owned news channel that there was a rocket attack on Ain al-Asad but said that no damage and no injuries were reported.
“At this time, we do not have what/how many were launched,” the official said.
The attack came two days after a military summit in Washington where Iraqi and U.S. officials discussed winding down the coalition’s work. No major announcement was made at the end of the talks, though American and Iraqi sources say an announcement that it will begin to gradually wind down is likely in the coming weeks.
This was the third attack against American troops in Iraq since early February when the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, suspended its attacks against U.S. bases.
The IRI began launching attacks against U.S. bases in Iraq and neighboring Syria as well as against targets in Israel last October in response to the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip and Washington’s unwavering support for it.
The group suspended attacks against U.S. forces around five months ago after the death of three American troops in a drone strike on a base in Jordan, reportedly upon a request from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to facilitate talks on the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. However, it escalated attacks against Israel.
The U.S. attempts to keep its troops in Iraq will likely force the IRI to resume attacks. This will lead to more escalation in the entire Middle East.
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the iraqis have to rid themselves of the parasites stealing oil gas and wheat from iraq and syria. like the disease they are, the ere is no other way of getting rid of american military after they contaminate your soil with their presence. you must realise by now, americans have reach the english pinnacle level, detested where ever they go in the world.
just like the jewry anywhere in the world, detested like noone else and the world is just waiting for the jews to be disappeared without a trace! and any wealth left behind should be used to de-debt the world, except the disunited states of a that amassed a debt of 34 trillion $$ in devestating the workd and killing millions of harmless civilians!!
the problem is that those ‘good’ (sic) american parasites branded as ‘alt-media’ (carlson, lavelle etc), ‘enlightened experts’ (ritter, johnson etc) and those deeply infiltrated into sputnik, rt (etc) are doing the most damage.
some are aware they are pro neocon shills, others are unable to comprehend that just by being american they are automatically part of the problem. unfortunately others don’t too…
especially when it was based on the worst lie of 9/11… i still remember where i was sitting the day nbc news broadcast an interview with the “dick” cheney after 6 months in the invasion of iraq if saddam hussein was involved in the event(s) of 9/11 to which cheney said “that he was not”!… how could the men in women in the u.s. armed forces hold their heads up after that announcement?
time for iran to hit that base again like they did before with sixteen ballistic missiles.
they will only do that when they are ready to escalate things in tandem with their global partners all over the world in america, russia, korea, and everywhwere. and by that i mean more specifically the freemason zio-puppet network.
long overdue !!!
that’s super! keep up the good work iraqis 😏👍 destroy the warmongers.