An Iraqi colonel inside the base, located 27 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, told Reuters that he had heard at least 10 rockets hitting the facility Saturday.

Security sources said the army had found an abandoned truck with a rocket launcher and some unused Katyusha rockets on its back in the nearby area of Umm al-Izam.

There has been no immediate report of casualties or any claim of responsibility for the attack.

On Wednesday, a similar rocket attack on Taji killed two US troops and a British soldier.

No group has yet claimed the attack in which some 18 107mm Katyusha rockets struck the US-occupied camp.

However, US President Donald Trump claimed that the attackers were a group that “most likely looked like it could be backed by Iran,” a claim rejected by Tehran as “baseless.”

US attacks military bases along Syrian-Iraqi border

On Friday night, the United States carried out artillery and missile attacks on military bases along the Syrian-Iraqi border less than a day after it launched airstrikes on several bases in Iraq.

Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network reported that American forces, stationed at the al-Omar oil field in Syria’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr province, had targeted bases west of the Euphrates River.

At the same time, it added, US warplanes flew over the districts of al-Musayab, Eskandariya and Jurf al-Sakhar in Iraq’s central Babil province.

On Thursday night, the US conducted a string of airstrikes that killed three Iraqi soldiers, two police officers, and a civilian worker, and damaged an unfinished civilian airport.

The air raids targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi army’s 19th division and the 46th PMU brigade as well as the under-construction airport in the holy city of Karbala and emergency regiments and commandos in several Babil areas.

The Iraqi military condemned the strikes as a violation of its sovereign and targeted aggression against its official armed forces, with the Foreign Ministry announcing that the country will complain to the United Nations and the Security Council.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Friday summoned the US and British ambassadors to Baghdad to protest the airstrikes.

On January 5, the Iraqi parliament obliged the government “to work towards ending the presence of all foreign troops,” including some 5,200 American forces.

The vote came two days after the US military – acting on Trump’s order – launched a fatal drone strike on Iran’s prominent anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani upon his arrival in the Iraqi capital at the invitation of the Baghdad government.

The attack also claimed the lives of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the PMU’s second-in-command, along with eight other Iranian and Iraqi people.

Infuriated by the Iraqi parliament’s vote, Trump threatened sanctions should US troops be expelled from the country.

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The attack on the US major bases in Iraq came after Iran pledged to retaliate the US assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

“Tens of surface-to-surface missiles” were fired at the strategic airbase but the exact number is now known now.

US base in Iraq’s northern region of Erbil was also among targets.

The attacks were later confirmed by US officials.

The IRGC added that it would release more details about the strike.

The strike comes as no surprise since Iran had vowed to take “harsh revenge”.

Sirens were reportedly heard and American helicopters flew over the airbase and the total alert was activated.

US President Donald Trump was being briefed about the retaliatory strikes.

“We are aware of the reports of attacks on US facilities in Iraq. The President has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team,” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.

The Pentagon claimed that it would take necessary measures to protect the US military forces amid heightened tensions in the region.

“We are working on initial battle damage assessments,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in statement, adding that the bases targeted were at al-Assad airbase and another in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

“At approximately 5.30 pm (2230 GMT) on January 7, Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq,” Assistant to the US Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.

“It is clear that these missiles were launched from Iran and targeted at least two Iraqi military bases hosting US military and coalition personnel at Al-Assad and Irbil.”

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) anti-terror group, better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, announced the start of Crushing Response Operation to the United States.

The White House was preparing for an address to the US nation by the American commander in chief, but it was announced later that the speech has been called off.

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