Samarra, Iraq
Five rockets hit one on Sunday Iraqi air base housing American aircraft and at least two got subcontractor facilities, a security source told the AFP news agency.
According to the same source, five people were injured, including two American subcontractors and three Iraqi soldiers.
F-16 fighter bombers are stationed at Balad base, North of Baghdad, And several companies are present there for maintenance with Iraqi and foreign employees.
Of the five missiles fired on Sunday, two of them hit a bedroom and another in the dining room of the American company in Sallyport, Indicated the security source.
So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, although US authorities have often blamed the attacks pro-Iranian militias, Allies of the Iraqi army, to organize attacks against its troops and diplomats.
After Joe Biden’s arrival at the White House in January, about 20 attacks, with missiles or bombs, took place against American soldiers or diplomatic representatives present in Iraq.
These hostilities took a step up last Wednesday after pro-Iranian factions carried out the first attack with a suicide drone in Iraq against a US base in Erbil, in the north of the country.