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On 21 April 2024, five rockets were fired from Zummar, Iraq towards the Kharab al-Jir base in Syria which houses US and coalition soldiers in the first major attack since early February. No US personnel were injured. The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights blamed the attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Control of many U.S.-operated bases was transferred to the Iraqi government during the 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal. At the request of the Iraqi government in January 2024, [3] and amid rising regional tensions following the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza, the US and Iraq are set to begin negotiations to end US military presence in Iraq. [4]
US-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021) Part of the War against the Islamic State (Operation Inherent Resolve), the War in Iraq (2013–2017), Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), and the War on terror: An American F/A-18C Hornet aboard USS George H.W. Bush prior to the launch of operations over Iraq in 2014.
August 5, 2024 at 11:07 PM. By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At least five U.S. personnel were injured in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, U.S. officials ...
Bases in Iraq and Syria with U.S. personnel have been attacked at least 10 times since Thursday, bringing the total number of attempted attacks on U.S. targets in the region since Oct. 17 to 38 ...
Attacks. On 11 March 2020, 29 rockets landed on Camp Taji, killing two Americans [5] and one British soldier from the Royal Army Medical Corps who was attached to the Irish Guards. [6][7] The attack left 14 other US soldiers, contractors and coalition personnel wounded, five of them critically. [4][8] One of the coalition wounded was identified ...
The same day, there were two separate drone attacks against U.S. and coalition forces stationed at al-Asad base in western Iraq. An American civilian contractor died of a heart attack sheltering ...
The 2021 Erbil rocket attacks occurred when multiple rockets were launched against Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. On 15 February, approximately fourteen rockets were fired from an area south of the city at around 21:30 local time. Three of the rockets directly hit the U.S.-led coalition base near Erbil International Airport ...