Iraqi security sources said a series of rockets targeted a U.S. base in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday morning.      (AP photo)

Baghdad, October 1 (RHC)-- Iraqi security sources say a series of rockets targeted a U.S. base in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.  Multiple Katyusha rockets were fired near Baghdad International Airport, two Iraqi military officials told Reuters early on Tuesday, 

Three rockets were fired at a base housing U.S. troops at Baghdad International Airport.
Two of the rockets were reportedly shot down by the base's special defenses, while the third fell inside the airport, reportedly causing no casualties.

“All military personnel are accounted for and military forces were not targeted as had been reported,” the U.S. Defense Department official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The United States has been the main supporter of Israeli genocidal attacks in Gaza and Lebanon.  Resistance forces have vowed to carry out operations against U.S. interests in the region as long as Washington backs the regime militarily.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq said on Monday it carried out new operations against Israeli targets in the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for the Tel Aviv regime’s devastating war on Gaza and its bloody onslaught against Lebanon.

“In continuation of our approach to resisting the occupation, and in support of our people in Palestine and Lebanon, and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping entity against civilians, including children, women and the elderly, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance attacked the following targets in the early hours of Monday, 30-9-2024,” said the umbrella group for Iraq’s resistance factions.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has been launching attacks on Israeli targets ever since the occupying regime started the genocidal war on Gaza in early October last year.

The resistance has also been hitting American military bases in Iraq and neighboring Syria in retaliation for Washington’s support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it has carried out new operations in the Israeli-occupied territories of Palestine, hitting the targets with drones “in support of Palestine, Lebanon.”

Israel has been waging an atrocious onslaught against the Gaza Strip, targeting hospitals, residences, and houses of worship after Palestinian resistance movements launched a surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, on October 7th.

At least 41,600 Palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children, and another 96,210 individuals have sustained injuries in Gaza so far.

Around 1.9 million people – about 9 in 10 of Gaza’s population – are estimated to have been internally displaced during the war as well.