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2019-12-31 Iraq
The possible ramifications of US airstrikes on Hashd al-Shaabi
[Rudaw] On December 29, US Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s struck the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah group in five locations, three in Iraq and two in Syria, in retaliation for a rocket attack against US troops in the K1 military base in Kirkuk two days earlier that killed one American civilian contractor and maimed US and Iraqi troops.

The Kirkuk attack was the latest in a series of rocket attacks targeting US personnel in Iraq in recent weeks but the first to result in casualties. According to The Wall Street Journal, that attack was the 11th time in a mere two months that American troops in Iraq were targeted by rocket fire.

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-31 00:10|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 How can anyone think that the inteluctibly tribal Iraqis can make good allies?
Posted by b 2019-12-31 07:38||   2019-12-31 07:38|| Front Page Top

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