US Hits Pro-Iran Group With Deadly Strikes In Iraq, Syria
By AFP News
12/29/19 AT 3:58 PM
The US carried out air strikes against a pro-Iran militant group in Iraq Sunday, killing 15 fighters, two days after a rocket attack that killed an American civilian contractor.
A few hours after the strikes, four rockets exploded near a base housing US troops close to Iraq's capital without wounding anyone, an Iraqi security official told AFP.
The US strikes, which also hit Syria, came after a barrage of 30 or more rockets was fired on Friday at the K1 Iraqi military base in Kirkuk, an oil-rich region north of Baghdad, killing a US civilian contractor and wounding four US service members as well as Iraqi security forces.
Fifteen fighters were killed by the US strikes in western Iraq, while several were wounded, according to an official from the Tehran-backed Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force.
https://www.ibtimes.com/us-hits-pro-iran-group-deadly-strikes-iraq-syria-2893618"In response to repeated Kata'ib Hizbollah (KH) attacks on Iraqi bases that host... coalition forces, US forces have conducted precision defensive strikes against five KH facilities in Iraq and Syria," a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.
