Iran fires missiles at military base housing U.S. force in Iraq

Iran fired missiles Wednesday at Iraqi military airbase which houses U.S. troops in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, an Iraqi provincial security source said.

Ayn al-Asad airbase in al-Baghdadi area, some 190 km northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, was pounded with more than 20 ballistic missiles before dawn, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

There were no immediate reports about casualties, the source said. Enditem