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Rockets strike Iraq’s Besmayah base hosting foreign troops – military | |
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A pair of rockets hit a military base in Iraq overnight, the country’s military said without mentioning any casualties. The Besmayah Range in central Iraq hosts a Spanish contingent. | |
This appears to be the latest in a series of harassing rocket attacks against sites in Iraq where NATO troops are stationed. One last week resulted in the deaths of two US troops and a British military medic at Camp Taji, triggering retaliatory airstrikes against Iraq’s Shia militia forces. | |
The Besmayah base 45km southeast of Baghdad hosts around 350 of the 550 Spanish troops deployed in Iraq, with Camp Taji being the secondary base of Spanish operations. | |
The situation for foreign troops in Iraq escalated after the US assassination on Iraqi soil of a senior Iranian general and his Iraqi host. The national parliament voted to have NATO forces removed from the country, but the alliance doesn’t seem to have any intention to comply. | The situation for foreign troops in Iraq escalated after the US assassination on Iraqi soil of a senior Iranian general and his Iraqi host. The national parliament voted to have NATO forces removed from the country, but the alliance doesn’t seem to have any intention to comply. |
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