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Several US troops were wounded in Iran missile attack in Iraq

Friday, 17th January 2020

The United States treated 11 of its soldiers for symptoms of concussion after an Iranian rocket assault focused on an Iraqi base where US powers were positioned, the US military has stated, after at first saying no administration individuals were harmed.

The January 8 assault was counter for a US ramble strike in Baghdad on January 3 that slaughtered Qassem Soleimani, the officer of the first-class Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

US President Donald Trump and the US military had said there were no setbacks after the assault on the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq and an office in its northern Kurdish area.

At the hour of the assault, the vast majority of the 1,500 US fighters at the base had been concealed in fortifications, after guidance ahead of time from bosses.

"While no US administration individuals were killed in the January 8 Iranian assault on the al-Asad airbase, a few were treated for blackout manifestations from the impact are as yet being surveyed," Captain Bill Urban, a representative for US Central Command, said in an announcement on Thursday.

As a proportion of alert, some assistance individuals were taken to US offices in Germany or Kuwait for "follow-on screening," he included.

"At the point when considered fit for obligation, the administration individuals are relied upon to come back to Iraq."

Announcing from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo said vast numbers of the soldiers were screened for blackouts, which the US specialists state is normal.

"The impact from rockets can make structures shake and shake and can cause conceivably, blackouts in any event, for individuals who are outside of the prompt effect zone," Elizondo said.