Breaking: Officials: US strikes Iran-backed group that hit Iraq base

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Officials: US strikes Iran-backed group that hit Iraq base
By LOLITA C. BALDOR10 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, American officials said, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad.

Officials said multiple strikes by U.S. manned aircraft hit five locations and mainly targeted Kataib Hezbollah weapons facilities inside Iraq. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because details about the operations were not yet public.

The strikes marked a rapid escalation in tensions with Tehran and its proxy groups in Iraq, just two months after Iran carried out a massive ballistic missile attack against American troops at a base in Iraq. They came just hours after top U.S. defense leaders threatened retaliation for the Wednesday rocket attack, making clear that they knew who did it and that the attackers would be held accountable.

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Strikes ongoing or have just finished.... got an alert on the phone.

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U.S. Central Command
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 We have effectively destroyed these facilities and expect that they no longer contain the type of advanced Iranian-supplied weapons that were used in the KH attacks. – Gen Frank McKenzie, CDR CENTCOM