Cairo: Kuwait’s army on Tuesday denied reports that an army facility had been attacked on the border with Iraq.
The denial came after Reuters, bringing up Iraqi security sources, reported that an explosion targeted a convoy carrying a device for US troops near the Jraischan border crossing on the Iraq-Kuwait border on Monday night.
“The army headquarters denies media reports about a subversive attack on one of the northern border centres of Kuwait,” the army said, according to Kuwait’s official news agency, KUNA.
The Kuwaiti army added that the country’s border with Iraq “is stable and secure.”
The self-proclaimed Iraqi defense force “People of the Cave,” allegedly allied with Iran, claimed the duty of the reported attack, claiming it had resulted in the destruction of several U.S. vehicles.
Tensions have risen between Iraq’s pro-Iranian Shiite militias in Iraq and the United States in recent months after U.S. airstrikes killed a senior Iranian commander and an Iraqi militiaman in Baghdad in January.
The measures triggered Iraqi calls for the withdrawal of U.S. forces, which are in the country as a foreign army alliance fighting the terrorist organization Daesh.
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