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A US base in Iraq which also houses 200 British personnel was targeted in a missile strike on Tuesday night, Daily Mail report.

No coalition troops were injured in the Soviet-made Katyusha rocket attack on Camp Taji north of Baghdad.

‘No Coalition troops were affected by this small attack at Taji Base,’ coalition military spokesman Colonel Myles Caggins III said in a tweet.

According to Daily Mail no group has claimed responsibility for the strike but the same rockets were used in the attack on Sunday night at another US base.

Four members of the Iraqi military were wounded in the eight-missile strike on Balad airbase around 50 miles north of Baghdad.

The attacks come a week after Iran targeted two US bases in Iraq. No troops were hurt in those revenge strikes for America’s killing of Tehran’s highest-ranking general Qassem Soleimani.

His assassination had been preceded by a string of attacks in recent months on US personnel in Iraq which have been attributed to the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah faction of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

When Soleimani was killed on January 3 he was riding out of Baghdad International Airport in a convoy with members of the PMF.

In the wake of his death, the PMF has made furious calls for US troops to withdraw from Iraq and passed a resolution to that effect through the parliament in Baghdad.