Roadside bomb explosion targets US-led coalition military convoy in southern Iraq
A roadside bomb has exploded in Iraq’s southern province of Basra, targeting a US-led military coalition's logistics support convoy.
The incident occurred in al-Yousufia district in the vicinity of the Jerishan crossing near the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border on Thursday, Iraq’s Arabic-language al-Sumeria television news agency reported.
Citing an unnamed security source, it said the explosion inflicted damage to one of the trucks, but did not leave casualties. The source gave no further details.
No group or individual has yet claimed responsibility for the blast.
This is the latest attack in a string of such incidents in recent weeks against convoys contracted with the US-led coalition in Iraq.
Early this week, a roadside bomb explosion struck a convoy of trucks belonging to the US-led coalition in Iraq’s southern province of al-Qadisiyah. The blast occurred when the convoy was moving near the provincial capital city of al-Diwaniyah, without causing casualties.
The attacks come amid rising anti-US sentiment in the Arab country, which were intensified following last year's assassination of a top Iranian anti-terror commander.
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, were targeted along with their companions in a US terror drone strike authorized by President Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport.
Two days after the attack, Iraqi lawmakers approved a bill on January 5 that requires the government to end the presence of all foreign military forces led by the United States in the country.
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