Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Baghdad

Two Katusha rockets fall on U.S. Base in Diwaniya, South Iraq

  DIWANIYA / IraqiNews.com: Two Katusha rockets fell on Sunday night on a U.S. Army base in southern Iraq’s Diwaniya city, an Iraqi Army source said.   “Two Katusha rockets fell on the U.S. Echo Camp, 3 kms to the west of Diwaniya city, but losses were not known,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that air sirens were heard after the fall of the two rockets, adding that Iraqi Army and police forces rushed to venue of the attack, searching for the attackers in the streets of the city.   The source added that the past few days had witnessed at least three attacks on the U.S. forces in the area, two of them with Katusha rockets and the third with an improvised explosive device (IED) that damaged an armoured vehicle.   Diwaniya, the center of the Province carrying the same name, is 180 kms to the south of Baghdad.   PT / SKH 807