U.S. officials: 2 U.S. troops killed in Iraq attack

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last updated 12 March 2020

Two U.S. service members were killed and a dozen more injured on Wednesday when rockets were fired at the Camp Taji military base in Iraq, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.

Army Col. Myles Caggins, a U.S. military spokesman, tweeted that more than 15 small rockets hit the base, but did not share any additional details on U.S. or Iraqi fatalities. Camp Taji, north of Baghdad, is used as a training base.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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