Ain-al-Assad Airbase: A minus truck into a bent metal located next to the mosque destroyed the explosion, after the latest pro-Iran attack on us interest in Iraq, who was warned by experts from the last.
“The whole environment is damaged, the houses are burning, the window breaks,” said Resident Hamza Abdulrazzaq, his head wrapped in bandages.
He was injured by one of the rockets, which landed in a city near the spacious Airbase Ain Al-Assad.
“The government must protect us,” he added.
“Why do we always pay the price?” There was a previous attack at the base in the Anbar Province of Iraq’s desert, which accommodated troops from the US coalition against the Islamic group.
But this operation is greater than the previous one.
Iraq General Hamad Namess said a total of 24 rockets were fired on Tuesday, from truck transportation flour.
“The vehicle has all the authorization needed to cross the checkpoint,” he told reporters on Thursday, speaking at the attack site.
Fourteen projectiles reached their target, causing a mild injury with two personnel at the base, according to the coalition.
Iraq, the length of the arena for bitter competition between the US and Iran despite their joint hostility, has seen more rocket attacks and drones on American targets in recent months.
The last few days have seen repeated attacks on the interests of the US in the West, Iraq Kurdistan in the north and the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Some have been claimed by previous unknown groups demanding the departure of “American Competier”, or promising to avenge the deaths of friends who were killed in a US strike.
But observers blame them on existing pro-Iran factions, which operate under the al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance umbrella formed to be fought is.
The commander of the hash, which was integrated into state forces and has become a major political player, often praises the attack – without ever claiming responsibility.
Hashed has taken revenge for the death of his troops in US strikes in Iraq and Syria.
Experts warn that, even if no party wants a conflict to increase, the attack has turned into a dangerous violent tit-for-tatt.
One of the senior military officials warned that Iraqi armed groups “played with fire”.
“We can expect the cycle to continue”, said Marsins Alshamar, an Iraqi specialist in the Brookings institution, Washington-based think-tank.
Pro-Iran’s forces have carried out dozens of attacks on US interests in Iraq since the beginning of the year, especially as a power show.
Iraq Researcher Hamdi Malik from the Washington Institute said the recent attack by Iran’s supported militias in Iraq and East Syria is a way to strengthen support.
Pro-Iranian groups suffered a heavy blow in January last year with US murders from the Iranian commander who respected Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi Lieutenant Abu Muhandis.
“By not acting when more people they are killed, (pro-Iranian groups) are at risk of losing credibility and legitimacy in their own base,” Malik said.
They are also cautious “losing respect in the eyes of other components of the ‘resistance axis’ in other countries in this region,” he said, referring to pro-Iran forces in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
On the other hand, Washington “tried to curb this influence and authority of this militia,” Alshamar said.
Iraqi countries have repeatedly condemned rocket attacks and drones, but cannot place one of the trial, said Alshamar.
Such incidents have increased in Iraq and Syria even when the US and Iran conducted complicated negotiations aimed at reviving the 2015 agreement on Tehran nuclear activities, scuppered by the Trump government in 2018.
Attack on us in Iraq is a dangerous cycle: experts
