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Israel on Alert as Militias Hit U.S. Base

February 19, 2021 · 6 min read

In what many are billing the “first serious test of Joe Biden’s Iran policy,” approximately 14 rockets were fired earlier this week at a U.S. airbase in Kurdish Iraq. Nine people were injured and one civilian contractor died.

Three “107mm rockets” landed inside the base while others fell on residential areas nearby, killing one person identified by a U.S…