There has been a flurry of rocket attacks in the past three weeks on Iraqi bases used by US-led coalition troops, including this one in the Kurdish regional capital Arabil last month
Coalition spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto confirmed that 10 rockets hit the base at 7:20 am while Iraqi security forces said they had found the platform from which 10 “Grad-type rockets” hit the Ain al-Assad base. The death marks the third fatality in rocket attacks in recent weeks, after rockets targeting US-led troops in the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil left two people dead.
They may also carry a message from Tehran to Washington, which under US President Joe Biden is offering to revive the Iran nuclear deal abandoned by his predecessor Donald Trump in 2018. Over the next 10 months, dozens of rockets and roadside bombs targeted Western security, military and diplomatic sites across Iraq — some of them deadly.
Despite the recent escalation, Pope Francis appears determined to go ahead on Friday with the first-ever papal visit to Iraq.
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