A missile attack on an American base in Iraq News

Two security sources and a government source said that attackers fired several missiles at a base on Saturday Lion’s eye The air force, which includes American forces in Anbar Governorate, western Iraq.

Reuters quoted an American official as saying that ballistic missiles struck the Ain al-Assad base, noting that there were reports that members of the Iraqi security forces were seriously injured in the attack.

For his part, a security source in the tribal mobilization confirmed that Ain al-Assad base was targeted with eight missiles launched from the Al-Baghdadi area, west of the governorate, near the air base. The source added that the international coalition forces responded to the source of the bombing with eighteen missiles.

The new attack comes two days after a drone attack claimed by the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq” on an American base near Erbil Airport in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and it said in a statement that it comes “in continuation of its approach to resisting the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region, and in response to the massacres of the Zionist entity.” against the people of Gaza.”

American officials reported that more than 100 attacks had occurred on American interests in Iraq and Syria since mid-October, days after the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza strip.

Most of these attacks were claimed by the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, which includes armed factions allied with and linked to Iran. With the popular crowd.

Washington deploys 2,500 military personnel in Iraq and about 900 in Syria as part of a mission International coalition against Islamic State organization Which was established in 2014.

He was the Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani The day before yesterday, Thursday, he called for setting a timetable to end the international coalition’s mission, after the tension raised by the American strikes against Iraqi factions, in response to their targeting of bases housing American forces in Iraq and Syria.

In a speech he delivered during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Al-Sudani said that the end of the mission of foreign forces is necessary for the security and stability of the country and to maintain constructive bilateral relations between Iraq and the coalition countries.

He reiterated the position he had expressed repeatedly recently that there were no longer justifications for the coalition’s existence, indicating that ISIS did not represent a threat to Iraq.