Several US soldiers were injured in a rocket attack on the US air base. Al Asad, in Iraq, and the US president, Joe Biden, was informed of the event, which occurs at a time of extreme tension in the Middle East for fear of retaliation from Iran and its satellites against Israel.
According to Defense sources reported to The Washington Post and CNN, several US soldiers were injured in the attack, but they are still carrying out a post-attack evaluation to clarify what happened.
Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were informed of the attack this afternoon during a meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East, which is in high tension after Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have promised to respond to the eliminations of the terrorist group's military commander. Shiite, Fuad Shukr, in a selective bombing in Beirut, which has been recognized by the Government of Jerusalem, and the head of the Hamas political office, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, which the ayatollah regime attributes to Israel.
The militia group calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed responsibility for launching four missiles against the air base of the US-led international coalition in Ain al Asad, in the west of the Arab country, after months without hardly launching any attacks.
In a brief statement, the pro-Iran Iraqi militias stated that "the occupied base of Ain al Asad was attacked" and reiterated their intention to "continue destroying the enemy's strongholds at an accelerated pace", without providing further details.
The United States has been under attack for some time in the region by militias supported by Iran in Iraq and Syria due to these attacks against its bases, which in January led to the death of three of its soldiers on the border between Jordan and Syria.
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