On Thursday, Multiple rockets were fired at a US base in Iraq, an attack that came after US and Iraqi officials held talks on the future of the US military presence in the country.
According to Reuters, the attack targeted the Ain al-Asad airbase, and no casualties or damage was reported. US officials said the base itself was not hit by the rockets.
From October 2023 until February, US bases in Iraq and Syria came under hundreds of rocket and drone attacks. Iraqi Shia militias began the attacks in response to US support for the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
After three US troops were killed in an attack on Tower 22, a secretive base in Jordan on the Syrian border, Iran and the Iraqi government pressured the militias to stop, and there have only been a handful of attacks since February.
The Iraqi militias fall under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), which is part of Iraq’s official security forces. The PMF militias, including Kataib Hezbollah, want the US to withdraw and have been pressuring Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to expel US forces.
Reuters reported on Monday that the Iraqi government wants the US to start drawing down troops in September and complete the mission of the US-led anti-ISIS coalition by September 2025. But the report said some US troops will likely stay in a different capacity.
This is more likely to have been from the Iraqi government-backed militias. They came after "talks on the future of the US military presence in the country." Those talks would have been another request for US troops to leave, and another refusal. That's at least four or five times that they've asked over the years, the troops are still there and I'd be surprised if they're not pissed about it.
… and the "WMD + al Qaidi" cynical scam is the foundation of it all, … all the death, displacement, and destruction. And they still won't leave! I'd say they're pissed!
Attacks would resume if US continues to ship arms to Israel…!
Well the Iraqi parliament did vote to oust their occupiers. Did they expect a red carpet?
US?….Here is your hat, what is your hurry?…..