the UNITED states secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, condemns a rocket attack against a u.s. base in Iraq.
Furious over reports of a new rocket attack against an iraqi air base. These violations of Iraqi sovereignty, carried out by groups which are not loyal to the Iraqi government, must end, writes Pompeo in a tweet.
No one has taken the blame for the attack, which took place on Sunday. The UNITED states has in the past accused militant iranian groups in Iraq to carry out the kind of attack, writes the news agency Reuters.
Four iraqi soldiers, according to Iraq's military wounded in the attack against the air base Al-Balad, which is north of the capital Baghdad.
the Base has the house a 'small number' of persons from the u.s. air force, but the majority was already evacuated because of the increased tensions between the UNITED states and Iran. It informs us militærkilder to the AFP news agency.
last week we sent Iran missiles against two airbases in Iraq. Including Al-Asad, where american and Danish soldiers are deployed.
None of the foreign military personnel were injured in the attack. But the Danish government decided to move the button 100 Danish soldiers from the Al-Asad base to Kuwait due to the elevated security risk in Iraq. 30 to 40 Danish soldiers remain at the base.
It has since emerged that Iran already had warned Iraq that the base and a second base in Erbil in the kurdish part of Iraq would be attacked.
the Attacks, according to Iran's revenge for the u.s. military's killing of the iranian general Qassem Soleimani, commander of Quds force, under the revolutionary guards of Iran.
