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On January 20, a large barrage of rockets hit al-Asad Air Base in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, where United States troops are known to be deployed.
Sabreen News, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iranian-backed armed factions in Iraq, said in separate posts on the messaging app that as many as 40 Grad 122 mm rockets were used in the attack on the air base and reported casualties.
Later, a U.S. official, citing initial assessments, told Reuters that U.S. troops suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq’s security forces was seriously wounded in the attack.
Videos from the vicinity of al-Asad Air Base showed the trails of what appears to be interceptor missiles launched by the U.S. military, possibly from an Iron Dome air defense system. The U.S. purchased two such systems from Israel a few years ago.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the largest to target U.S. troops in Iraq since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iranian-backed armed factions, was behind most of some 140 attacks that have targeted bases hosting U.S. troops in Iraq and others in neighboring Syria since October 17. The group said that the attacks were carried out in support of Palestinian people.
The U.S. responded more than once, attacking targets linked to the IRI in both Iraq and Syria. However, the group is only getting stronger and more daring.
Earlier this week, the IRI shot down an MQ-9 Reaper combat drone of the U.S. military over the northeastern Iraqi province of Diyala, confirming that it is in position of advanced air defense capabilities. It’s worth noting that the group used suicide drones as well as ballistic and cruise missiles in past attacks on U.S. troops and targets far away in Israel.
good work from iri, foreign squatter pigs can go home peacefully or in pieces…
py ck?
one thing i don’t understand; why don’t they strike with 120 drones, rockets or missiles at once. no dome protects against that amount. they have the weapons, so why not wipe the entire base off the map at once?
a massive attack would be used by usa propaganda to go full war. in full head on war with the beast, the axis of resistance loses. so it uses slow low profile ‘death by a 1000 cuts’ approach to wear out the beast.
good news blood sucker killers are dying.please one more time.their blind mothers are also crying.
to muselo bolieť, ha, ha, ha … stratiť tak mq 9 reaper v hodnote cca 16,5 milióna us$. to by šlo!!! takto treba na tie kurvy z usa!!! treba im poriadne púšťať žilou. svetu mier!!!
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americans in iraq are now sitting ducks. after being uninvited by iraq’s prime minister the islamic resistance knows that another u.s. strike conducted in so called self defense against any target inside iraq is further violation of iraqi sovereignty will only increase the calls for u.s. troops to leave and will hasten the u.s. departure from iraq and therefore syria.
assad defeated zionists. aleluya.
true. and usa has been asked twice by iraq parliament for its troops to leave iraq, as they are a destabilising iraq, especially with their backing of isis making all ther terrorist attacks. but usa refused. talk about an occupation.
the cradle news channel is reporting the yanquis are pumping up isis again and using their military presence in iraq and syria to help isis move around especially between the border. even reported that yanquis are giving lifts in helicopters to isis. isis is being reactivated as usa’s frontline troops in the region.
i wonder who thecradle is affiliated with or southfrontdotpress for that matter.
doesn’t matter. it is the content and if they are telling correctly what is really going on, that is important. both seem to say it as it is, and a few weeks or months later they are proved correct.
sometimes even sooner.
this is like colony freedom wars of the 1950’s to 1970’s like angola, algeria, etc. but now it is empire usa to kick out.
get the reapers.
boneheads in washington fully baited. biden’s presidency ends in calamity and war.
they are getting their own medicine 💊. what you give abroad you will receive it back
and uncle sam likes to lecture the world about the “rules-based international order” while illegally occupying iraq, syria and other countries. yankee go home!!!
the ussan mafia can’t get no respect as the cadaver in chief rants and raves and “michael” obummer gets ready to “run for the white house”. it’s all over now bar the civil war reloaded and the long awaited monster mercan dump$ter fire. karma is so wonderful when it comes to collect.
many lizard traumatic brain injury—amerikan soldiers no brain azz injured