BAGHDAD – At least 14 rockets hit an Iraqi air base hosting US and other international forces on Wednesday, slightly wounding two people, the US-led coalition said, as Kurdish-led forces in Syria said they thwarted a drone attack in an area where US forces also operate.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks, part of a recent wave targeting US troops or areas where they operate in Iraq and Syria, both countries where Iran-backed militias hold sway, according to Reuters.
Iraqi militia groups aligned with Iran vowed to retaliate after last month’s US strikes on the Iraqi-Syrian border killed four of their members.
Two people were slightly wounded in the rocket attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, U.S. Army Colonel Wayne Marotto, spokesman for the coalition, said. He initially put the number of injuries at three. The rockets landed on the base and its perimeter, he tweeted.
In Syria, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said no damage was done by the drone attack on the Al Omar oil field in eastern Syria, an area bordering Iraq where U.S. forces came under rocket fire but escaped injury on June 28.
There was no immediate comment from the US military about the Syria attack.
The United States told the UN Security Council last week that it targeted Iran-backed militia in Syria and Iraq with airstrikes to deter the militants and Tehran from conducting or supporting further attacks on US personnel or facilities.
