The Pentagon said it was still 'working on initial battle damage assessments' after 'Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq.'
A mock US flag is laid on the ground for cars to drive on in the Iraqi capital Baghdad following news of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards top commander Qasem Soleimani.BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iran fired missiles Wednesday at Iraqi bases housing the US military, officials in Washington and Tehran said, in the first act of the Islamic republic's promised revenge for the US killing of a top Iranian general.
Trump, who visited al-Asad with First Lady Melania Trump in December 2018, his first trip to US troops deployed in a war zone, said initial casualty assessments indicated"all is well."Iranian state television reported an attack on one base housing US personnel, saying it was in response to Friday's killing in a US drone strike of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, one of the most important figures in the country's government.
But Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif seemed to indicate that the missile strikes were over for now. Oil prices immediately jumped on the news, with the benchmark WTI spiking more than 4.5 percent to $65.54 a barrel before receding slightly. He called Soleimani - for years the mastermind of Iran's regional network of official and covert military and anti-US alliances -"a monster."
"At some point we want to get out, but this isn't the right point," Trump told reporters at the White House.Despite Washington's assurances, several allies started to leave, raising questions over the future of a US-led mission to help the Iraqis fight the jihadist Islamic State group.
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