Rockets Strike Base Hosting Foreign Troops in Central Iraq

By Staff, Agencies

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 rocket attacks against sites in Iraq where NATO troops are stationed. One of those last week resulted in the deaths of two US occupation troops and a British military medic at the Camp Taji.

The Besmayah base, located 45 km southeast of Baghdad, hosts some 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 the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] Quds Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi Paramilitary Group Hashd al-Shaabi Second-in-Command Hajj Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis and their comrades.

The national parliament voted to have NATO forces removed from the country, but the alliance doesn’t seem to have any intention to comply.