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Iraq

UAV attack targets a military base housing U.S. troops in western Iraq: source

2024-01-23

[Shafaq News] An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has targeted the vicinity of a military base housing U.S. troops in western Iraq, a security source reported on Monday.

The source told Shafaq News Agency that the UAV landed in the vicinity of the Ain al-Asad airbase in al-Anbar governorate but did not disclose whether it left casualties or damages.

U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq's security forces was maimed in an attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday. The U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement that the base was hit by multiple ballistic missiles and rockets fired by Iranian-backed turbans from inside Iraq. The statement did not confirm the extent of any U.S. injuries but said personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injury.

The U.S. military's assessment was more severe than initial accounts from security sources in Iraq, who, along with an Iraqi government source, had only reported rocket fire against the base.

Offering a sense of the scale of the attack, Central Command said most of the missiles were intercepted though others hit the base.

"Damage assessments are ongoing," Central Command said, adding the attack took place at 1830 in Iraq (1530 GMT)...At least one Iraqi service member was maimed."

Since the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
war began in October, the U.S. military has come under attack at least 58 times in Iraq and another 83 times in Syria by Iran-backed turbans, usually with a mix of rockets and one-way attack drones.

The turbans are seeking to impose a cost on the United States for its support of Israel against Iran-backed Paleostinian turban group Hamas.

The U.S. has 900 troops in Syria and 2,500 in Iraq on a mission to advise and assist local forces trying to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, which in 2014 seized large parts of both countries before being defeated.

Iraq is deeply concerned about becoming a battleground between the United States, Israel and Iran.

Legitimate. And so they cuddle up to the near enemy in the hope Iran will protect them agains those farther away.

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