Taji

Rockets hit US coalition-base Camp Taji in Iraq days after British female Lance Corporal was killed

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A barrage of rockets has hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led coalition troops for the second time this week, security officials said. Three coalition service personnel – a British woman and two Americans – were killed in the first attack on Camp Taji on Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack on coalition troops in … Read more

Defence Secretary promises ‘strong response’ over attack on Camp Taji, Iraq

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The foreign secretary has welcomed US retaliatory air strikes in Iraq, calling them a ‘swift, decisive and proportionate’ response to a missile attack that killed a British servicewoman and two American troops. US fighter jets struck five weapons storage facilities on Thursday, in response to Kataib Hezbollah’s missile attack on the Taji camp in Iraq. Lance … Read more