Washington admits wounding 11 soldiers in Iran's attack on the Iraqi base of al-Assad

The US Central Command announced that at least 11 American soldiers were wounded in the Iranian attack on an Iraqi base where American soldiers are deployed, although the Pentagon previously denied any injuries.

"While none of the American soldiers were killed in the January 8 Iranian attack on Ein al-Assad air base, many of them underwent treatment for the concussion symptoms caused by the explosion," US Central Command spokesman Bill Urban said in a statement. They are still being evaluated. "

"In the days after the attack, due to extensive precautionary measures, some of the soldiers were removed from Ain al-Assad base," he said, specifying that 11 soldiers were transferred to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, and to Camp Arifjan in Kuwait for checks.

On January 8, Iranian state television said that at least eighty American soldiers were killed by the Iranian missile attack on two bases that include American forces in Iraq, in retaliation for the assassination of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in a US raid near Baghdad airport on the third of The same month.

Target and intercept
Iranian sources indicated that no Iranian missile was not intercepted, and confirmed that "severe damage" had been caused to American helicopters and military equipment at Ain Al-Asad base in Anbar (western Iraq).

And the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced at dawn of that day the targeting of the Ain al-Assad base, which includes American soldiers in the Iraqi province of Anbar, with dozens of surface-to-surface missiles.

At that point, the Pentagon said that the missile attack targeted the Ein al-Assad and Erbil bases.

The Pentagon indicated that Iran launched more than 12 ballistic missiles at the two bases where American forces are stationed.

US President Donald Trump said in his first tweet after the Iranian attack, "Everything is fine, missiles fired from Iran at two military bases in Iraq. The assessment of the losses and damage occurring so far is very good, we have the strongest and well-equipped army anywhere in By far the world.