Ain Al-Asad

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Pentagon: 11 US troops were injured in Iranian attacks on Iraqi bases
January 17, 2020
“As previously stated, while no U.S. service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Ain Al-Asad air base, several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed,” said a U.S. Defense Department spokesperson.
Satellite image showing damage to at least five structures at Ain al-Assad air base in Iraq in a series of precision missile strikes launched by Iran, Jan. 8, 2020. Credit: Planet Labs Inc./Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey via Wikimedia Commons.
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Iraq missile attacks are response to Soleimani killing, Iranian media claims
January 8, 2020
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Missile attacks on U.S. targets in Iraq were “a slap on the face” for America.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Iran’s Kermanshah Province in November 2017. Credit: Khamenei.ir via Wikimedia Commons.
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Iran launches missiles on Iraqi bases housing US troops
January 7, 2020
The attacks come less than a week after the United States killed IRCG Quds Force Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport.
A massive dust storm cloud is close to enveloping a military camp as it rolls over Al Asad, Iraq, just before nightfall on April 27, 2005. Credit: Corporal Alicia M. Garcia/U.S. Marine Corps.
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