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Attacks. On 15 February 2021, at around 21:30 local time, [21] approximately fourteen 107mm rockets [4] were launched from an area south of Erbil near the border with Kirkuk Governorate, [3] and three of them struck the section of the airport hosting U.S. and coalition partner forces. [4] Despite this, the rockets struck all over the city's ...
2022 Erbil missile attacks. The 2022 Erbil missile attacks occurred on 13 March 2022 when multiple ballistic missiles were launched by the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from East Azerbaijan province, Iran, against the city of Erbil in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. [4][5] 12 Fateh-110 ballistic missiles were reportedly launched from Iran. [6]
The airstrikes on Al Hury, Syria, 27 June 2021. On 28 June 2021, President Biden directed airstrikes against Iran-backed militia groups close to the Syria-Iraq border. [2] F-15E and F-16 aircraft were used to launch the attack in what the U.S. described as a retaliatory attack against U.S. facilities and personnel in Iraq by militia groups.
The strikes left at least six civilians dead, ... An aerial view shows Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region, on Dec. 13, 2021. ... 2021. Credit - Safin Hamid—AFP ...
In addition to the strikes at northeast of Kurdistan's capital Erbil in a residential area near the U.S. consulate, the Guards said they "fired a number of ballistic missiles in Syria and ...
The strikes were conducted by two F15s dropping Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and was the first overt military operation ordered by the Biden administration. [267] On 28 June 2021, the US military conducted airstrikes on facilities purportedly used by Iranian-supported militias near the Iraq–Syria border. [268]
On 20 October, the US ordered all non-emergency staff to leave their embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil. [44] On 20 November, eight US and coalition soldiers were injured from a ballistic missile attack, and there was minor infrastructural damage after the air base was attacked by a ballistic missile. [45]
3 U.S. soldiers killed and 47 wounded. Tower 22. Tower 22 in Jordan. On 28 January 2024, an attack drone, launched by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq —an Iranian-backed Shia militia group—struck Tower 22, a U.S. military outpost in Rukban, northeast Jordan. The explosion killed three U.S. soldiers and injured 47 others.