A minimum of 4 BM-21 Grad missiles have been launched at Ain al-Asad Air Base, roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Baghdad, in line with Sabereen News, a Telegram information channel affiliated with Iraqi Widespread Mobilization Units — higher identified in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha’abi.
Two rockets fell outdoors the bottom, in line with the Safety Media Cell, which is related to the Iraqi prime minister’s workplace.
Safety forces have launched an inquiry into the occasion, in line with the assertion.
The assault was carried out by a bunch calling itself “Worldwide Resistance,” and it’s the newest in a sequence of assaults towards US occupation troopers in current months.
Two fight drones struck targets inside the identical Iraqi air base on April 8.
The Arabic-language Al-Sumaria tv community reported on the time that there have been no accidents or injury, citing an nameless safety supply.
The report added that counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) methods managed to intercept the plane.
The assaults come amid rising anti-US sentiment, which has intensified for the reason that assassination of prime Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant Normal Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.
On January 3, 2020, Normal Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Widespread Mobilization Units, have been focused together with their companions in a terror drone strike close to Baghdad Worldwide Airport licensed by former US president Donald Trump.
Iraqi legislators authorised a invoice two days after the assault that compels the federal government to stop the presence of all overseas army personnel within the nation, led by the US.
On January 8, 2020, the IRGC focused the US-run Ain al-Asad Air Base after launching a wave of assaults to retaliate the assassination of Lt. Gen. Soleimani.
