US-led coalition DENIES conducting airstrikes north of Baghdad amid studies of medics killed in US raid

The US-led coalition spokesman mentioned the forces didn’t hit targets close to Camp Taji north of Baghdad, after Iran-backed Iraqi militia reportedly claimed that medics had been hit in a current air raid on a convoy late Friday.

The US-led forces “did NOT conduct airstrikes” within the space in current days, the spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve, Colonel Myles Caggins, tweeted.

FACT: The Coalition @CJTFOIR did NOT conduct airstrikes close to Camp Taji (north of Baghdad) in current days.

— OIR Spokesman Col. Myles B. Caggins III (@OIRSpox) January four, 2020

Earlier, Reuters reported, citing an Iraqi Military supply, that six individuals had been killed and three critically injured in a raid that Iraqi state media blamed on the US.

The Iran-backed Shia militia In style Mobilization Forces (PMF) then reportedly claimed that the airstrike hit a convoy of medics.

The studies got here after a US drone strike killed the chief of Iran’s elite Quds Power, Main Common Qassem Soleimani, and PMF deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at Baghdad’s airport. The White Home confirmed that US President Donald Trump sanctioned the operation to take out Soleimani.

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