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Rockets hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led troops outside the capital Baghdad on Saturday, the second such attack this week on the site, the Iraqi military said.
Thirty-three Katyusha rockets landed in Camp Taji, hitting Iraqi air defence units near a US-led coalition mission, Iraq’s military Joint Operations Committee.
An unspecified number of the air defence members were injured in the “flagrant attack”, the command added in a statement.
Initially, a spokesman for the command said at least two Iraqi service members were critically injured.

Iraqi security forces later Saturday found seven launch pads used in the attack and dismantled 24 other rockets before their launch, the Iraqi army said, according to the state news agency INA.
The US-led coalition confirmed the attack, saying at least 25 rockets hit the base.
“Assessment and investigation ongoing,” a coalition spokesman tweeted.
So far, there has been no claim of responsibility.
On Wednesday, 18 Katyusha rockets struck the Taji base, killing two Americans and one British national.
Barrage of rockets hit base housing US troops in Iraq
The US retaliated on Thursday by mounting air strikes against facilities of Iraq’s Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah.
The strikes killed three Iraqi army soldiers, two policemen and a civilian worker, according to the Iraqi military.
No group took responsibility for the Wednesday attack, but Kataib Hezbollah praised it.
The Iraqi army urged the US and other partners to an anti-Islamic State alliance not to respond to Saturday’s attack without the Iraqi government’s approval, warning against further escalation.


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Over 30 rockets hit Iraqi base housing US troops, second attack in less than a week

Katyusha rocket launchers found by the Iraqi Army. Photo: Handout via Reuters

(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 12, 2018 an Iraqi Shiite fighter of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force secures the border in al-Qaim in the Anbar province, opposite Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir Ezzor region on November 12, 2018. - An air strike killed 26 fighters of Iraqi paramilitary group Hashed al-Shaabi in eastern Syria after a deadly attack on US-led coalition troops in Iraq, a war monitor said on March 12, 2020. Updating its toll for the Marcg 11 strike, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was probably carried out by the coalition. The coalition did not immediately provide comment. Before the strike near the border town of Albu Kamal, rockets were fired at a military base north of Baghdad hosting coalition troops, killing two Americans and one Briton. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Barrage of rockets hit Camp Taji base housing US troops in Iraq

The Karbala airport was one of the areas targeted by US military air strikes against a pro-Iranian group in Iraq. Photo: AFP

A picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows destruction at Karbala airport in the Iraqi shrine city, one of the areas targeted by US military air strikes against a pro-Iranian group in Iraq following the deaths of two Americans and a Briton in a rocket attack the previous night on a US base in Taji. - The US operation targeted five weapons facilities of the Kataeb Hezbollah armed faction across Iraq, the Pentagon said in a statement, one of them in Karbala, south of Baghdad. Wednesday's attack on the Taji air base was the 22nd on US installations in Iraq, including the American embassy, since late October. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, Washington has blamed Iran-backed factions from the Hashed al-Shaabi network, a state-sponsored umbrella group that includes Kataeb Hezbollah, for recent similar violence. (Photo by Mohammed SAWAF / AFP)

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A woman walks past a US military Humvee in Baghdad in January 2008. There are about 5,200 US troops stationed across Iraq as part of the international coalition. Photo: AFP

(FILES) This file photo taken on January 13, 2020 during a press tour organised by the US-led coalition fighting the remnants of the Islamic State group, shows a view of the damage at Ain al-Asad military airbase housing US and other foreign troops in the western Iraqi province of Anbar. - The number of US troops who sustained traumatic brain injury when Iran launched missiles at their base in Iraq last month has risen to 110, the Pentagon said on February 21, 2020. (Photo by Ayman HENNA / AFP)

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The attack on Camp Taji hit Iaqi air defence units near a US-led coalition mission



The attack on Camp Taji hit Iaqi air defence units near a US-led coalition mission.


Over 30 rockets hit Iraqi base housing US troops, second attack in less than a week

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The attack on Camp Taji hit Iaqi air defence units near a US-led coalition mission