What happened

Iraq's Camp Taji, a base north of Baghdad hosting coalition and U.S. forces, was struck by roughly 29 Iranian-made 107mm rockets on 11 March 2020, killing two U.S. service members and one British Royal Army Medical Corps soldier attached to the Irish Guards, and wounding at least 14 coalition personnel, including a Polish soldier, five of them critically. A second barrage of more than 25 Chinese-made Type 63 rockets struck the same compound and adjacent Iraqi air-defense facilities on 14 March, wounding three more coalition soldiers and two Iraqi soldiers without further deaths. U.S. and Iraqi officials widely blamed the Iranian-backed Kata'ib Hezbollah militia, while a little-known group calling itself the League of Revolutionaries separately claimed responsibility, an attribution the reviewed reporting treats as unconfirmed. In retaliation, U.S. warplanes struck weapons depots and missile facilities near Al-Bukamal, Syria, and in Iraq's Al-Anbar province on 11 March, and U.S. and British aircraft struck Kata'ib Hezbollah and Popular Mobilization Forces sites in Karbala and Babylon on 13 March, reportedly killing several Iraqi soldiers, police and a civilian in the process; Iraq's government condemned the retaliatory strikes and summoned the U.S. and U.K. ambassadors in protest.

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