(TKG) ─ Iranian media reported, Iran fired dozens of rockets at two Iraqi bases hosting US troops early on Wednesday {January 08, 2020].
According to media reports, the Pentagon confirmed that Iran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops.
The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil early on Wednesday while tensions are being escalating between Tehran and Washington, reports added.
The attacks follow the US killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last week.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, was killed early Friday [January 03, 2020] in US airstrike in Baghdad, after which Iran vowed to take severe retaliation.
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