The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon announced that more American soldiers would leave Iraq for treatment and examination two weeks after the Iranian missile attack on two military bases, and President Donald Trump also admitted that there were "non-serious" casualties.
The Pentagon revealed last Friday that 11 American soldiers need to be treated outside Iraq, and US military officials declined the day before yesterday to disclose the number of soldiers who left, but confirmed that additional workers in the medical field had left for the American regional Landstall Medical Center in Germany.
A spokesperson for the US Army, Major General Beth Ryordan, said in a statement that while treatment and medical examinations continue to be provided at the scene, more patients have been identified, and more patients are expected to be identified later.
These injuries emerged after the Iranian attack on Ain al-Assad Air Force Base, west of Baghdad, and the other base in the northern city of Erbil, in response to the killing of the United States commander of the Iranian Quds Force, General Qassem Soleimani, on the eighth of this month near Baghdad International Airport.
The newspaper quoted military officials in Ain al-Assad as telling her on the 13th of this month that "dozens" of soldiers suffer from symptoms similar to concussion of the brain.
In context, Trump acknowledged during a press conference at the end of his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos that there were injuries suffered by American soldiers as a result of the attack, and he said, "I heard that they had a headache ... I can say it is (serious) not serious."
The Iranian bombing had left deep craters and charred debris in several locations at Ein al-Assad base. US officials initially said that no service personnel had been killed or injured, and indicated that Washington was not looking for additional armed conflict with Iran.