Photo: US Military in Syria
At least five rockets were fired from the Iraqi town of Zummar at a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday April 21, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.
The attack on US troops was the first since early February that Iran-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks on US troops in the region.
The attack came on the same day Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani returned from the United States, where he met with President Joe Biden at the White House.
Two Iraqi security sources and a senior army officer said a missile launcher mounted on the back of a small truck was parked near the Syrian border. city of Zummar.
According to a military spokesman, the truck caught fire from the explosion of unfired missiles while military aircraft were in the sky.
"We cannot confirm , that the truck was destroyed by American military aircraft until we conduct an investigation", – a military source said on condition of anonymity.
Iraqi security forces were deployed to the area and began searching for the attackers, who fled in another vehicle, a security official stationed in the town of Zummar said.
The incident occurred a day after a powerful explosion rocked a military base in Iraq early on Saturday, April 20, killing one member of the Iraqi security forces.
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