The Pentagon said 34 military personnel were diagnosed with brain injuries following a missile attack by Iran on Ain al-Assad base in Iraq earlier this month.
Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said that eight soldiers who had been transferred to Germany earlier were transferred to the United States.
Hoffman noted that among the symptoms the soldiers are experiencing are "headache, dizziness, hypersensitivity to light, agitation and nausea. In some cases, these symptoms quickly disappeared, but in others they worsened, and the soldiers were evacuated.
On the evening of January 7, Tehran fired missiles at the Ain al-Assad (West) and Erbil (North) bases, where a number of the 5,200 American soldiers are stationed in Iraq, in response to the killing of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Qassim Soleimani. .
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US President Donald Trump said shortly after the Iranian attack that "no Americans were injured in the attacks last night." But last week, the Pentagon acknowledged that 11 soldiers were actually suffering from concussion.
When Trump was asked about it at the Davos forum last Wednesday, he again reduced the impact of the Iranian strikes, saying, "I heard they have a headache ... I do not consider it a serious injury."
On Friday, a Pentagon spokesman attributed the new toll that these symptoms often take several days before they appear.