Rockets Target Base Hosting US-Led Coalition Forces in Baghdad

Rockets Target Base Hosting US-Led Coalition Forces in Baghdad
U.S. Army trainers instruct Iraqi Army recruits at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Reuters
8/16/2020
Updated:
8/16/2020

CAIRO—Two Katyusha rockets targeted Iraq’s Al-Taji base north of Baghdad, which hosts U.S.-led coalition troops.

No casualties are being reported, the coalition spokesman and state news agency said on Saturday.

“On Aug 15, appx 9:15 p.m., two small rockets landed near Taji base. No coalition troops near impact,” spokesman for the U.S-led coalition, Col. Myles B. Caggins III, said on Twitter.