Baghdad: Iran has launched a missile attack on US-led forces in Iraq in the early hours of Wednesday, according to reports.
The attack is in retaliation for the US drone strike on Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani,whose killing has raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.
Tehran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon confirmed.
The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil early on Wednesday came amid escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps confirmed that they fired the rockets to retaliate for last week’s killing of Qassem Soleimani, according to a statement on state TV.
Iran advised the United States to withdraw its troops from the region to prevent more deaths, reports stated.
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