NOURNEWS- US Central Command, CENTCOM, reported on Saturday brain injuries among its troops in a missile attack on the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq by a resistance group amid growing anti-American sentiment in the region over Washington’s support for Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
CENTCOM issued a statement about the attack on the Ain al-Asad base located in western Iraq. "On January 20, around 18:30 Baghdad time, several ballistic missiles and rockets were fired towards the airbase”.
“Most of the missiles were tracked by the air defense systems but some were hit the base and the damages are being assessed”, the statement said, adding that some soldiers also suffered brain injuries and are currently undergoing examinations.
An American official was quoted by media that based on initial assessments a US soldier sustained minor injuries in the attack on the airbase while an Iraqi security member was severely injured.
The US command in West Asia was prompt in leveling accusation against Iran despite the fact that Ain al-Asad as well as several other US bases and facilities in Iraq and Syria have come under repeated missile and rocket attacks by Iraq’s Islamic Resistance in recent months.
Western news agencies quoted a US military source and an Iraqi police official as saying that at least 12 missiles were fired at the military base in western Iraq.
In a statement, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq itself took responsibility for the attack and announced that it used a barrage of rockets to hit the US base.
Resistance groups in Iraq and elsewhere in the region have repeated warned the United States against it all-out support for the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Resistance had warned the United States that it would target American bases in the region in retaliation for its complicity in Israeli crimes against the Palestinians.
Iraqi resistance groups have targeted American bases in Iraq and Syria more than 100 times to make Americans realize that the cost of supporting the Israeli regime’s massacre of the people in Gaza.
The Yemeni forces have also warned that they will continue military operations against Israeli or Israeli-linked ships and interests in the Red Sea until the regime stops its deadly aggression against Gaza.
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