Pentagon confirms US-led coalition hit Iraqi Hezbollah bases

29 December 2019, 7:37 pm

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The United States has bombed the headquarters of the Iran-backed Iraqi Hezbollah militia in Iraq and Syria, the Pentagon says, following a rocket attack in Iraq that killed a US civilian contractor.

“In response to repeated Kata’ib Hizbollah (KH) attacks on Iraqi bases that host Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) coalition forces, US forces have conducted precision defensive strikes against five KH facilities in Iraq and Syria that will degrade KH’s ability to conduct future attacks against OIR coalition forces,” a Pentagon spokesman says in a statement.

On Friday a barrage of 30 rockets was fired at the K1 Iraqi military base in Kirkuk, an oil-rich region north of Baghdad, a US official told AFP, killing a US civilian contractor.

— AFP