On Wednesday, January 8th, Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi air bases housing US troops. This took place after US airstrikes that killed top Iranian military general Qasem Soleimani.
The Iraqi prime minister’s office said there were no casualties among Iraqi forces, and that it had not received reports of any casualties from the U.S.-led coalition.
The statement said Iran notified Iraq that it was carrying out its response to the U.S. strike.
Iraq also rejected any violation of its sovereignty and aggression on its territory, and called for restraint to prevent the U.S.-Iran crisis from developing into a devastating war.
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A Pentagon spokesman said the missiles launched from Iran targeted the Al-Asad base, located about 60 kilometers west of Baghdad, as well as one in Irbil, part of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region.
The missile attack was the latest step in a series of events that have unfolded in the past two weeks with increasing tensions between the United States and Iran.
