Several US personnel and a member of Iraq’s security forces were wounded in a ballistic missile attack on Iraq’s Ain Al Asad airbase, west of Baghdad, the US military said. The strike against the US base in Anbar province, which mainly houses Iraqi forces, is the largest missile attack on US troops since Iran struck the same base in 2020, in retaliation for an attack that killed Iranian Maj Gen Qassem Suleimani, near Baghdad. “The air defense systems in the base intercepted most of the missiles, while others landed in the base,” a statement said.
