U.S.-led coalition spokesperson Army Colonel Myles B. Caggins III said 'more than 15 small rockets impacted Iraq's Camp Taji base hosting Coalition troops.'
U.S. and allied personnel were targeted in a rocket strike against a military base north of Baghdad, an attack soon followed by airstrikes against suspected militia positions along the border of Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Army Colonel Myles B. Caggins III, spokesperson for the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group , then confirmed that"more than 15 small rockets impacted Iraq's Camp Taji base hosting Coalition troops, March 11 at 7:35 p.m. ." He added:"Assessment and investigation ongoing." "There has been no targeting of Popular Mobilization contingents," a spokesperson for Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces collective of state-sponsored militias told"The strike targeted military headquarters in the Al-Hari area, which is located 10 miles from the border of Iraq, within Syria."
A picture shared March 11 by the Iraqi military's Security Cell shows what was said to be a Kia Bongo truck bearing a Katyusha rocket launcher with three projectiles still in their tube. The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS said U.S. and allied troops came under rocket attack at the Taji Base north of Baghdad.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.
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