Adam KredoJanuary 23, 2020 2:05 PM
Iran-backed militias continue to wage attacks on American outposts in Iraq, according to senior U.S. officials.
James Jeffrey, the Trump administration’s special representative for Syria engagement and special envoy for the global coalition to defeat ISIS, said the United States continues to experience targeted strikes by Iran-backed militia groups seeking to foment unrest in Iraq.
In the weeks since U.S. forces killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iran-backed militants have scaled down their attacks but continue to launch strikes at U.S. positions in the war-torn country, Jeffrey told reporters in a briefing.
“In terms of attacks, we’ve seen a few shellings of coalition—or bases where coalition forces are located,” Jeffrey said on Thursday. “Other than several at the American embassy compound a couple of days ago, they have been intermittent, the kind of thing that we have—or all been used to in our years in Iraq. Nothing like the very targeted, precise, 30-plus rocket attacks we were seeing in those 11 incidents that led up to our response last month, so—this month. So—well, last month and this month. But so for the moment, that front is fairly quiet.”
Content retrieved from: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-backed-militias-continue-attacks-on-u-s-outposts-in-iraq/.
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