Retaliation Begins: Multiple Mortar Attacks On US Presence In Iraq, Hezbollah Warns Security Forces "Stay Away"

Summary:

• Multiple 'Katyusha' unguided missiles/mortars fired into two regions near Baghdad.
• Green Zone neighborhood in Baghdad, comes under mortar shell attack: 5 ppl wounded.
• Balad airbase (hosts US troops) near Baghdad hit by missiles: 3 Iraqi soldiers wounded.
• Explosion heard at Al-Kindi base in Mosul (which houses US troops): no details on injuries yet
• Hezbollah warns Iraqi Security Forces to stay away from US bases.

As 1000s march in the streets of Baghdad to moutn the death of Soleimani, Al-Arabiya (and other local news sources) report rockets have landed in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where the US Embassy (among other things) is located.

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