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US troops in Syria, Iraq targeted with renewed rocket and drone attacks

Iran-backed militias are not buying the Pentagon's attempt to rebrand the coalition's defeat-ISIS mission.
Iraq rockets

Rockets rained down near bases used by US troops in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, marking the third straight day of such attacks since the two-year anniversary of the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on Monday.

No one was reported injured in the barrages, which targeted the US-led coalition’s site near al-Omar oilfield in Syria, Iraq’s Ayn al-Asad airbase in Anbar province and the international airport in Baghdad, which houses Iraqi and coalition troops.

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