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Military Bases Housing U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria and Iraq
(Wall Street Journal) Jared Malsin - Rockets and indirect fire struck bases hosting U.S.-led military coalition forces in Iraq and Syria in at least three separate attacks Wednesday, the third day in a row that Iran-aligned paramilitary groups have targeted America and its partners. A small military base in northeastern Syria known as Green Village, hosting U.S.-backed Syrian and coalition forces, came under eight rounds of indirect fire, causing minor damage. In Iraq early Wednesday, a rocket struck an Iraqi military base used by U.S. forces near Baghdad's international airport. Later on Wednesday, five rockets were fired near Ayn al-Assad, an Iraqi military base that hosts U.S. forces, but landed far from the base. The Saraya Qasem al-Jabarin militia claimed responsibility for the attack. The U.S. has about 2,500 soldiers stationed in Iraq and 900 in Syria working with local forces in the continuing fight to suppress Islamic State.