WASHINGTON — Iranian-backed militants attacked US and Iraqi troops Saturday at a base in western Iraq with ballistic missiles and rockets, and a few American service members are being evaluated for traumatic mind accidents, in line with US officers.
The assault with ballistic missiles on the al-Asad base represents an escalation of the handfuls of assaults mounted by the militants since Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Until Saturday, many of the assaults have been comparatively minor and concerned drones and rockets in Iraq and Syria. Ballistic missiles can carry heavier explosive hundreds.
The Biden administration has sought to include the preventing to Gaza however has more and more been drawn into skirmishes with Iranian-backed militants throughout the Middle East. In Yemen, the Pentagon on Saturday mounted its sixth assault on Houthi militants to destroy what the US Central Command stated was an anti-ship missile that was poised for launch into delivery lanes within the Red Sea.
Militants launched Saturday’s assault on al-Assad with “a number of ballistic missiles and rockets,” in line with an announcement by the US Central Command. Most of the missiles had been intercepted, whereas others hit the bottom.
Iranian-backed militias have launched 130 assaults in opposition to US and coalition troops in Iraq and Syria since October, in line with the Pentagon.
In January 2020, Iranians fired 13 ballistic missiles at al-Asad and greater than 100 troops suffered traumatic mind accidents.