11 US Soldiers Injured in Iranian Missile Attack on Al-Asad Base in Iraq

Al-Assad Airbase in Iraq 

On January 8th the Iranian regime fired several missiles from Iran at two US bases in Iraq.

None of the missiles hit their target and originally no casualties or death were reported.

But on Friday the US military announced that 11 soldiers were injured in the missile attack. The soldiers are being monitored for symptoms of concussion.

Al-Arabiya reported:

Eleven US troops were treated for concussion symptoms as a result of the Jan. 8 Iranian missile attack on an Iraqi base where US forces were stationed, the US military said on Thursday, after initially saying no service members had been hurt.

“While no US service members were killed in the Jan. 8 Iranian attack on Al Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed,” Captain Bill Urban, spokesman for US Central Command, said in a statement.

The United States treated 11 of its troops for symptoms of concussion after an Iranian missile attack on an Iraqi base where US forces were stationed, the US military said on Thursday, after initially saying no service members were hurt.

The attack was retaliation for a US drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3 that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

President Donald Trump and the US military had said there were no casualties after the strike on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq and a facility in its northern Kurdish region.