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100km Fallujah Baqubah Sulaymaniyah Arbil Mosul Karbala Kut Ramadi Samarra Tikrit Kirkuk Baghdad Hillah Muqdadiyah Haditha Makhmur Halabja Iran’s Proxy Militias Continue to Escalate Against U.S. Personnel: January 3 – March 17, 2020 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 1 15 9 2 4 - 5 6, 13, 14 © 2020 by the Institute for the Study of War 1 Jan 03: U.S. drone strike kills Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force Commander Soleimani and Popular Mobilization Forces Deputy Commander Muhandis outside the Baghdad International Airport. 2 Jan 08: Iran’s IRGC Aerospace Force res 16 short-range ballistic missiles at the Ain al Assad Airbase in Anbar and toward the U.S. consulate and Harir Air Base in Arbil. e attack causes no fatalities but dozens of traumatic brain injuries among the U.S. forces stationed at Ain al Assad Airbase. 3 Jan 08: One of two rockets red toward Baghdad’s Green Zone lands within 100 meters of the U.S. Embassy. 4 Jan 09: One rocket lands near Balad Air Base, causing no damage. 5 Jan 12: Eight rockets target Balad Air Base, injuring four Iraqi soldiers. 6 Jan 14: Five rockets land near Camp Taji, causing no damage. 7 Jan 20: ree rockets red from the Zafaraniyah neighborhood target the U.S. Embassy inside Baghdad's Green Zone; two of the rockets land within the Embassy’s outermost fence. 8 Jan 26: ree mortars target the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; one of the mortars strikes the Embassy cafeteria during dinner and wounds at least one American. 9 Feb 13: A rocket red from a Christian cemetery north of K1 military base hits an open area on the base. 10 Feb 16: ree rockets red toward the U.S. Embassy land outside the complex, causing no damage. 11 Mar 02: Two rockets red from the Zayouna neighborhood land near the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone but cause no damage. 12 Mar 05: ree rockets launch from the Al-Amanah neighborhood in eastern Baghdad; one rocket lands near the Iraqi Federal Police headquarters in the western Al-Mansour district, while the other two land near the U.S. Embassy. 13 Mar 11: A barrage of 30 rockets red from the Rashidiya area targets Camp Taji; eighteen of the rockets strike the base and kill an American soldier, an American contractor, and a British soldier as well as injure at least a dozen U.S.-led Coalition troops. e U.S. announces that KH was responsible for the attack, but a previously unknown Shi’a militia group and likely Iranian proxy calling itself Usbat al- aireen, or “the League of Revolutionaries,” claims responsibility in a YouTube video released March 15. 14 Mar 14: A barrage of 33 rockets red from concealed launch pads hidden in an industrial garage in the Abu Adham area targets Camp Taji, wounding three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi air defense personnel; Usbat al- aireen claims responsibility. 15 Mar 16: Two rockets launched from an agricultural area in Nahrawan target Basmaya base; Usbat al- aireen claims responsibility. 16 Mar 17: Two rockets launch from Baghdad’s Arab Jabour neighborhood toward the Jadriyah neighborhood; one rocket lands in the Tigris River and the other hits an abandoned building just across the Tigris River from the U.S. Embassy. Graphic by: Katherine Lawlor and Brandon Wallace
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100km

Fallujah

Baqubah

Sulaymaniyah

ArbilMosul

Karbala Kut

Ramadi

Samarra

Tikrit

Kirkuk

Baghdad

Hillah

MuqdadiyahHaditha

Makhmur

Halabja

Iran’s Proxy Militias Continue to Escalate Against U.S. Personnel:January 3 – March 17, 2020

3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 161

15

9

2

4 - 5

6, 13, 14

© 2020 by the Institute for the Study of War

1 Jan 03: U.S. drone strike kills Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force Commander Soleimani and Popular Mobilization Forces Deputy Commander Muhandis outside the Baghdad International Airport.2 Jan 08: Iran’s IRGC Aerospace Force fires 16 short-range ballistic missiles at the Ain al Assad Airbase in Anbar and toward the U.S. consulate and Harir Air Base in Arbil. The attack causes no fatalities but dozens of traumatic brain injuries among the U.S. forces stationed at Ain al Assad Airbase.3 Jan 08: One of two rockets fired toward Baghdad’s Green Zone lands within 100 meters of the U.S. Embassy.4 Jan 09: One rocket lands near Balad Air Base, causing no damage.5 Jan 12: Eight rockets target Balad Air Base, injuring four Iraqi soldiers.6 Jan 14: Five rockets land near Camp Taji, causing no damage.7 Jan 20: Three rockets fired from the Zafaraniyah neighborhood target the U.S. Embassy inside Baghdad's Green Zone; two of the rockets land within the Embassy’s outermost fence.8 Jan 26: Three mortars target the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad; one of the mortars strikes the Embassy cafeteria during dinner and wounds at least one American.9 Feb 13: A rocket fired from a Christian cemetery north of K1 military base hits an open area on the base.10 Feb 16: Three rockets fired toward the U.S. Embassy land outside the complex, causing no damage.11 Mar 02: Two rockets fired from the Zayouna neighborhood land near the U.S. Embassy in the Green Zone but cause no damage.12 Mar 05: Three rockets launch from the Al-Amanah neighborhood in eastern Baghdad; one rocket lands near the Iraqi Federal Police headquarters in the western Al-Mansour district, while the other two land near the U.S. Embassy.13 Mar 11: A barrage of 30 rockets fired from the Rashidiya area targets Camp Taji; eighteen of the rockets strike the base and kill an American soldier, an American contractor, and a British soldier as well as injure at least a dozen U.S.-led Coalition troops. The U.S. announces that KH was responsible for the attack, but a previously unknown Shi’a militia group and likely Iranian proxy calling itself Usbat al-Thaireen, or “the League of Revolutionaries,” claims responsibility in a YouTube video released March 15. 14 Mar 14: A barrage of 33 rockets fired from concealed launch pads hidden in an industrial garage in the Abu Adham area targets Camp Taji, wounding three U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi air defense personnel; Usbat al-Thaireen claims responsibility.15 Mar 16: Two rockets launched from an agricultural area in Nahrawan target Basmaya base; Usbat al-Thaireen claims responsibility.16 Mar 17: Two rockets launch from Baghdad’s Arab Jabour neighborhood toward the Jadriyah neighborhood; one rocket lands in the Tigris River and the other hits an abandoned building just across the Tigris River from the U.S. Embassy.

Graphic by: Katherine Lawlor and Brandon Wallace

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