American forces were targeted at a base in western Iraq, a US defense official said Tuesday, the second such attack on the country’s troops after a more than two-month pause.
It followed another attack over the weekend in which rockets were fired from northern Iraq at a base in Syria that houses forces from the US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group.
US troops in the Middle East have been attacked scores of times since mid-October, but the cycle of rocket and drone attacks and periodic retaliatory strikes stopped…
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