Rockets land near Iraqi air base ahead of strategic dialogue with US
No one was hurt in the latest barrage, an Iraqi military official said
Two rockets landed outside Iraq’s Balad air base on Sunday ahead of planned talks between Washington and Baghdad officials over the future of US troop presence in Iraq.
No personnel were injured and no damage was inflicted, the Iraqi Army’s Maj. Gen. Tahseen al-Khafaji told the Associated Press.
Balad, which lies some 50 miles north of the Iraqi capital, is among the few Iraqi bases still housing US military personnel, who surged back into the country in 2014 to crush the then-rising Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
The Pentagon says some 2,500 US troops remain in Iraq alongside other nations’ forces as advisers to Iraq’s military on security operations.
