China News Service, March 3, according to Russian satellite network quoting Iraqi News Agency (INA), people familiar with the matter said that on March 3, local time, the US Army’s Assad Air Force Base in Anbar Province was hit by a large-scale rocket. Attacked, but there have been no casualties.

  The source said, “According to preliminary data, the Assad base was attacked by 10 rockets that day.” According to the source, the attack has not caused casualties for the time being.

  On January 3, 2020, Soleimani, the commander of the "Quds Brigade" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard of Iran, was killed by a U.S. drone outside the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq.

In the early morning of January 8, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired dozens of missiles in retaliation against two US military bases in Iraq, one of which was the Assad Air Force Base.