US troops killed, injured in Iraq rocket attack - officials

Coalition forces instructors monitor as they train Iraqi Army's 53rd Brigade in a live ammunition training exercise at Taji military base north of Baghdad, Iraq August 9, 2017.

One of the officials said five service members were seriously wounded and evacuated from the Camp Taji base and seven others were still being evaluated. Another official said two of those who had died were US service members.Army Col. Myles Caggins, a US military spokewman in Iraq, said on Twitter that more than 15 small rockets hit Iraq’s Camp Taji base. Another US official said that as many as 30 rockets were fired from a truck launcher, and 18 hit the base.

Kataib Hezbollah been designated a “foreign terrorist organization” by the State Department since 2009. The Britain-based Observatory which monitors the Syria war through a network of activists on the ground said at least 10 explosions were heard in the region but said there was no immediate word on casualties.

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