BAGHDAD, Aug 23 (NNN-NINA) – A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of trucks, carrying equipment belonging to U.S. troops in western Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The blast took place when the convoy was moving on a highway, near al-Ghazaliyah neighbourhood, in the western part of the Iraqi capital.
There was no immediate information about casualties, the official added.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but unidentified militant groups have frequently targeted civilian convoys, contracted to the U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, which usually travel from neighbouring Kuwait to the coalition bases in central and northern Iraq.
On Friday, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said, a roadside bomb struck a convoy of trucks carrying logistical equipment belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces in Aweirij, an area on the southern edge of Baghdad, burning one of the trucks and killing its driver.
The attacks came, as Iraqi-U.S. relations witnessed a tension since Jan 3, when a U.S. drone struck a convoy at Baghdad airport, which killed Qassem Soleimani, former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of Iraq’s paramilitary Hashd Shaabi forces.
