At least five rockets were launched from northern Iraq to a US military base in northeastern Syria. The attack was announced by Iraqi security forces, who found the vehicle used to carry out the shooting.
The forces indicated in a statement that a “major search and inspection operation” was launched in Nineveh province to find the perpetrators of the shooting, the first large-scale attack against troops of the coalition led by United States after several weeks of calm.
The attack on US forces is the first since early February, when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq ended their attacks on US troops.
This attack comes a day after the Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, returned from a visit to the United States, where he met with the president Joe Biden in the White House.
Five rockets were fired from Iraq into Syria: the details
Security sources in the country confirmed to Reuters that the shots were fired from a rocket launcher in the back of a truck parked in the city of Zummar, bordering Syria.
The statement issued by the security forces accuses “outlaw elements of having launched rockets at an international coalition base in the center of Syrian territory around 9:50 p.m. (6:50 p.m. GMT).”
They also stated that the truck It caught fire with an explosion of unfired rockets, while war planes flew over the territory.
“We cannot confirm that the truck was bombed by US warplanes unless we investigate it,” explained a military official on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the incident.
Still, an army official said the truck was seized for further investigation and that the initial investigation shows that It was destroyed by an air raid. “We are communicating with coalition forces in Iraq to share information about this attack,” he added.
Explosion at an Iraqi military base
The attacks occurred a day after a huge explosion at a military base in Iraq In the early hours of Saturday morning he killed a member of an Iraqi security force involving groups backed by Iran.
The force commander said that it was an attackwhile the military stated that it was investigating and that there were no warplanes in the sky at the time.
Source: Ambito
