Iraq officials: Rocket attack hits base housing US troops
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLABMarch 14, 2020 GMT
BAGHDAD (AP) A barrage of rockets hit a base housing U.S. and other coalition troops north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said, just days after a similar attack killed three servicemen, including two Americans.
The U.S.-led coalition said at least 25 107mm rockets struck Camp Taji just before 11 a.m. Some struck the area where coalition forces are based, while others fell on air defense units, the Iraqi military statement said.
Five people were wounded in the attack, including three coalition members and two Iraqi soldiers, according to spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition Myles Caggins.
A Creston man was sentenced to life in prison for shooting a Des Moines man and leaving his body on the side of a rural Madison County road last year.
Gerald Parker, 42, was charged in July with first-degree murder and robbery in the death of Jonathan Hoffman, 39. Hoffman was found July 21 with multiple gunshot wounds near the intersection of Grandview Lane and Macksburg Road.
Parker was sentenced March 3 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was also sentenced to 25 years in prison on the robbery charge and was ordered to pay $150,000 to Hoffman s family.
In February, a jury convicted Parker on both counts. A woman told investigators that she was in a truck with Parker when they picked up Hoffman in Des Moines to give him a ride to Creston, according to a criminal complaint.
Oct 23, 2020 5:56 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration on Friday slammed Turkey for taking a new step toward fielding a Russian-made air defense weapon. The U.S. complaint marked a deepening rift that threatens the future of a security relationship that has been central to the NATO military alliance for seven decades.
After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that his country had tested the S-400 air defense system and brushed off American complaints, saying, “We aren’t going to ask America,” the Pentagon hit back.
“The U.S. Department of Defense condemns in the strongest possible terms Turkey’s October 16 test of the S-400 air defense system,” the top Pentagon spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said in a statement. “We have been clear and unwavering in our position: an operational S-400 system is not consistent with Turkey’s commitments as a U.S. and NATO ally.”
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