Missile attack on US base in Iraq

No casualties reported in missile attack.

The base, which was occupied by American troops in 2003, is located in a rural region approximately 27 km (17 mi) north of the city of Baghdad in the Baghdad Governorate.

4 Iraqi soldiers were wounded after 8 rockets hit the Al Balad airbase on Monday.

On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani, Iran launched numerous ballistic missiles at the Ayn al-Asad airbase in al Anbar Governorate, Western  Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, in response to the killing of General Qaseem Soleimani by a United States drone strike. (ILKHA)