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Iraqi military bases housing US troops have been targeted by Iranian missiles. Here’s what you need to know

Updated 0623 GMT (1423 HKT) January 8, 2020

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(CNN)Two Iraqi bases that house American troops were the target of more than a dozen Iranian missiles on Wednesday in retaliation for the US killing Iran’s most powerful military general.

Iran has vowed revenge for the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad on Friday, calling it an “act of war” and “state terrorism.”
In a statement, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, an elite wing of the Iranian military that is also known as the IRGC, said the attacks were “hard revenge” for the death of Soleimani.
Here’s what you need to know.
Al-Assad base has hosted Trump
The al-Assad air base, which houses US troops, is one of the largest and oldest military bases in Iraq.
It is located in Anbar province, a hotbed of ISIS activity in western Iraq between 2014 and 2017. Anbar was the birthplace of Sunni extremism in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
In December 2018, President Donald Trump visited troops at Al Assad. “We came in, we felt very safe coming in. It was a pretty difficult journey in certain ways, but we felt very, very good, very safe,” Trump said, according to a White House transcript.
Vice President Mike Pence visited the base a year later to celebrate Thanksgiving with around 150 service members.

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Al-Asad airbase

Erbil base is in Kurdistan
The military base in Erbil, also targeted by Iran on Wednesday morning, also houses US troops. It is located in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq, run by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which is a strong ally of the US. The US worked closely with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in the fight against ISIS.
After Iran fired more than dozen ballistic missiles on Wednesday morning, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Twitter the attack was “targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched,” apparently referring to the killing of Soleimani.
It is unclear if the two bases played any role in the US attack.
There were no initial reports of any US casualties.-CNN

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