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BREAKING: US Service Members Injured In Iraq Missile Attack

An unspecified number of U.S. military personnel were injured in an attack on an air base in western Iraq by Iranian-backed militants on Saturday, authorities said.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the attack on Al Asad Air Base occurred around 6:30 p.m. Baghdad time (10:30 a.m. ET) and included the use of ballistic missiles and rockets. Announced. statement. According to the statement, air defense systems intercepted most of the missiles, but not all.

“A number of U.S. personnel are being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries. At least one Iraqi service member was injured,” the statement said.

The attack took place several hours later CENTCOM reported The military destroyed a Houthi anti-ship missile that was preparing to launch into the Gulf of Aden, posing a threat to commercial and naval vessels in the area. On January 11, Centcom seized a ship transporting weapons from Iran to the Houthis in Yemen. statement I got it.

The attacks continued Iranian state media reports Five Iranian military advisors killed in Israeli airstrike in Syria. In a separate attack, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed to have used ballistic missiles to destroy a facility it described as “the center of the Zionist regime's Mossad intelligence agency” in Erbil, Iraq. The US consulate in Erbil was reportedly unaffected. (Related: Pentagon insists Israeli conflict is not escalating even after turmoil in Middle East surges)

The attack was the 144th and one of the largest attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria since Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, when an Iranian-linked militia launched a ballistic missile attack. This is the second time it has been used, CBS News reported. report.

Al-Asad Air Base was also attacked in October 2023, where US forces stationed there destroyed two unmanned aircraft and damaged a third. A number of soldiers suffered minor injuries, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Rider said. Said.

Shiite militias, collectively known as the Islamic Resistance Movement of Iraq, have grown in strength over the past decade and have attacked US military bases in Iraq and Syria since the October 7, 2023 attack, CNN reported. . report. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi also spoke of a regional axis of resistance while condemning Israel and other “hegemonic states led by Iran.” [U.S.]” Iranian state media report.

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