The U.S. military conducted airstrikes in various locations inside Iraq on Thursday in retaliation for a recent rocket attack that killed two American service members and one British service member and wounded 14 others, according to two U.S. officials, one of whom characterized the strikes as being
It was unclear what targets were being struck by U.S. military aircraft, but earlier in the day, senior Pentagon officials had blamed Iranian-backed Shia militia groups for Wednesday's attack on Camp Taji in Iraq."Yesterday's attack by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups consisted of multiple indirect fires that originated form a stationary platform and was clearly targeting coalition and partner forces on Camp Taji," Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters on Thursday.
Asked on Thursday whether Iran should expected a response from the U.S., Trump replied,"I'd rather not say.""Let's put it this way, you will see. I can't say," Trump said."I was working on that last night also. They sent a lot of rockets. It hasn't been fully determined it was Iran." Following the attack, U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces found a rocket-rigged truck a few miles from Camp Taji.
Testifying before Capitol Hill on Thursday, the commander of U.S. troops in the Middle East, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, noted that"the Iranian proxy group Kata'ib Hezbollah is the only group known to have previously conducted an indirect fire attack of this scale against U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq."
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