Rocket hits northern Iraqi base hosting US forces: Security sources

A rocket hit a base in northern Iraq that hosts U.S. forces on Thursday however brought about no casualties, Iraqi safety sources stated.

The base, referred to as K1 close to the town of Kirkuk, is the place a U.S. civilian contractor used to be killed in December in a identical assault, blamed by way of Washington on Iran-backed militias.

A Reuters witness stated U.S. warplanes had scrambled and had been hovering overhead in a while after the assault on Thursday. There used to be no instant declare of duty for the rocket.

The December assault used to be adopted by way of retaliatory U.S. moves that killed some two-dozen militiamen, assaults by way of crowds at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad after which the killing by way of U.S. drone strike in Baghdad of most sensible Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani – a sequence of occasions that introduced the area on the subject of full-scale warfare.

Fans of Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who died in the similar strike, this week marked 40 days for the reason that deaths in their leaders with ceremonies in Baghdad.