Britain\u2019s Ministry of Defence on Thursday confirmed the death of Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26, a Reserve with the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry. She joined the regiment in September 2015 as a Combat Medical Technician (CMT), where she quickly progressed through her trade and military training to qualify as a Class 1 Combat Medical Technician in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Camp Taji, located just north of Baghdad<\/a>, has been used as a training base for a number of years. There are as many as 6,000 U.S. troops in Iraq<\/a>, training and advising Iraqi forces and conducting counterterrorism missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officials did not say what group they believe launched the rocket attack, but Kataib Hezbollah or another Iranian-backed Shia militia group is likely. Officials with OIR confirmed 107 mm rockets were used in the attack, a favorite weapon of choice for Iran-backed militias operating in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kataib Hezbollah \u201chas functioned as a spear point for IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] in Iraq. The rockets used are quite popular with Iran\u2019s proxies,\u201d Phillip Smyth, a research fellow with the Washington Institute, tweeted<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kataib Hezbollah<\/a> was responsible for a late December rocket attack on a military base in Kirkuk that killed a U.S. contractor, prompting American military strikes in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That in turn led to protests at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. They were followed Jan. 3 by a U.S. airstrike that killed Iran\u2019s most powerful military officer, Gen. Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a leader of the Iran-backed militias in Iraq, of which Kataib Hezbollah is a member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kataib Hezbollah been designated a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d by the State Department since 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A truck with a make-shift rocket launch platform was found south of the area with three Katyusha rockets, according to the Iraq security media cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rocket attack is reminiscent of the deadly Dec. 27, 2019, attack against the Iraqi Kirkuk military installation that resulted in the death of an American contractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. blamed an Iran-backed Shia militia known as Kata-ib Hezbollah<\/a>, and launched retaliatory airstrikes against the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incident nearly led to a broader conflict with Iran following a decapitation strike in early January that killed Iran Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n\n\n\t![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LCpl-Gillon.jpg.jpg\")