U.S. Army Denies Conducting Airstrike in Iraq

A U.S. military official announced today, Thursday, that the Army stated it did not carry out an airstrike on a rocket launch platform on Monday near the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, which hosts U.S. and other international forces. The U.S. military official told Reuters that "the rocket launcher mounted on a vehicle, which was reportedly found about seven kilometers east of the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq, was not destroyed as a result of a U.S. airstrike." Iraqi military officials told Reuters on Tuesday that a U.S. airstrike on a rocket launch platform late on Monday thwarted an attack on the Ain al-Asad airbase. The U.S. military official stated that "any damage to the launch platform may have been due to a malfunction or failure in the launch."