the Green Zone and a base housing American soldiers targeted almost simultaneously in Iraq!

Two attacks almost simultaneously targeted Saturday’s ultra-secure Baghdad Green Zone and an Iraqi air base sheltering US soldiers north of the capital, security officials said. They did not make a victim.

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Two mortar shells fell in the Baghdad Green Zone, home to the US Embassy attacked on Tuesday by thousands of pro-Iran fighters and supporters in Iraq, Iraqi and Green Zone security officials said.

At the same time, less than a hundred kilometers further north, two Katyusha rockets hit the Balad air base, security sources said. This huge Iraqi base hosts American soldiers and planes.

According to the Iraqi military command, there were no casualties in the two attacks.

Immediately after these shots, American drones flew over the base for reconnaissance missions, added these sources.

The United States deployed additional soldiers this week to protect its diplomats and soldiers in Iraq. Anti-American sentiment, fueled by pro-Iran, flared up with the assassination on Friday of a drone strike by the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and his chief Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis. The calls for “revenge” are increasing in Baghdad as in Tehran.

For several months now, the Americans have considered the pro-Iran armed factions in Iraq to be a more dangerous threat to them than the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group. Since the end of October, thirteen rocket attacks have targeted American interests in Iraq, even killing an American subcontractor on October 27 at a base in the country’s oil center. None have been claimed, but Washington accuses the pro-Iran factions of Hashd al-Chaabi – a coalition of state-integrated paramilitaries – of being responsible.

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