A Katyusha missile fell at the Taji base that hosts forces from the international coalition led by the United States of America, and a convoy of vehicles belonging to contracting companies with the coalition was attacked Saturday with an explosive device in southern Iraq.
On Saturday, the official Iraqi News Agency quoted an army statement as saying that two Katyusha rockets landed at the Taji base, which is hosting forces from the US-led coalition.
The agency quoted the Security Media Cell as saying that the two missiles were fired from the Rashidiya area. There were no reports of injuries.
In turn, coalition spokesman Miles Caggins said in a tweet on Twitter, "On August 15, around 9:15 pm, two small rockets landed near the Taji base. There was no presence of coalition forces near the incident."
In a related context, the captain in the Iraqi army, commanded by Al-Rafidain Operations, Alaa Al-Ziyadi, said that "a homemade device exploded on Saturday evening targeting a convoy of vehicles transporting international coalition equipment within the administrative borders of Dhi Qar Governorate."
"The attack caused minor damage to one of the vehicles," Al-Ziyadi said.
Earlier Saturday, a device exploded in one of the vehicles of a convoy of companies contracting with the coalition forces on the highway linking the governorates of Basra and Dhi Qar in southern Iraq, and the explosion did not "cause any damage," according to what was told by Anadolu Agency lieutenant in the Iraqi army within the Basra Operations Command. Muhammad Khalaf.
Usually, the companies contracting with the international coalition transport military equipment of its own.
A convoy of these companies was attacked with an explosive device in Dhi Qar on Wednesday, which led to the burning of one of its vehicles, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, while another convoy was attacked with an explosive device in the province of Diwaniyah, south of the country on Friday, without causing any damage.
The frequency of attacks against the international coalition led by the United States and its contracting companies has increased since the killing of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, and the leader of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Authority, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, in a US air strike in Baghdad on January 3.
Washington accuses the Iraqi "Hezbollah" brigades and other factions close to Iran of being behind the attacks.
And following the missile attacks, the US forces withdrew from 7 military sites and bases throughout Iraq over the past months, as part of the repositioning.