U.S. convoy carrying logistic supplies targeted in Iraq’s Babil

Baghdad, February 7 (RHC)-- A military convoy carrying logistic supplies for American forces has been targeted in Babil province, central Iraq.  The convoy was hit Saturday night near the Iraqi city of Musayyib in Babil province, according to the Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen.

Sources close to the Iraqi resistance forces said a military convoy carrying logistic supplies and equipment for the US forces has been targeted in Hillah, south of Iraq.

Over the past few months, attacks on U.S. convoys in the Arab country have become a regular occurrence and their intensity has been growing.  At least 20 U.S. convoys have been targeted in the past two months, according to Iraqi media reports.

The attacks come amid rising anti-US sentiment, which has intensified since last year's assassination by the US of senior Iranian and Iraqi anti-terror commanders in Baghdad.

General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and his Iraqi trenchmate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were targeted along with their companions on January 3rd last year in a terror drone strike authorized by former U.S. president Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport.

Two days after the attack, Iraqi lawmakers approved a bill that requires the government to end the presence of all foreign military forces in the country.