Rockets hit US troops, Iraqi contractors | Military News
No victims or perpetrators of the attacks were claimed near Baghdad airport and the Ballad air base.
Multiple rockets have targeted two Iraqi military bases taking in U.S. coalition troops and foreign contractors, but no one has been injured in the attacks.
The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement on Thursday that an attack near a military base near Baghdad airport was carried out by three drone warheads filled with explosives and detonated and destroyed one of the UAVs.
Three rockets were also fired Wednesday at Balad air base north of the capital, with no casualties or injuries, according to military documents. At the base are foreign military contractors.
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Iraqi paramilitary commander arrested on terror charges
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BAGHDAD, June 4, 2019 (Xinhua) A security member guards an entrance to the Green Zone, Baghdad, Iraq, on June 4, 2019. For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, main streets in Baghdad s heavily-fortified Green Zone were fully opened. Image Source: IANS News
Baghdad, May 27 : Iraqi security personnel have arrested a leader in the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi or the Popular Mobilization Forces over terrorism charges, raising a state of emergency in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
A statement issued on Wednesday by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC), said: Security forces arrested at dawn Qasim Mahmoud Karim Muslih, commander of Hashd Shaabi forces in Anbar province according to an arrest warrant issued by the Iraqi judiciary over charges of terrorism.