According to the media, referring to sources in the Iraqi security forces, the night of Wednesday, January 8, located in the West of Iraq air force base ain al-Assad, on the territory of which housed U.S. military released nine of the missiles.
on the Eve it became known that the USA planned to build at the airbase the airfield for strategic bombers B-52 “Stratofortress” is a giant structure that must correspond to the world standards. To date, around allotted for the construction site already installed security perimeter, the construction work should have been to begin soon.
on Sunday, January 5 of this year, the Iraqi Parliament approved at an extraordinary meeting a resolution which obliged the government to put an end to the military presence of foreign forces in the country and to stop working in the framework of the security agreement concluded with the forces of the international antiterrorist coalition. The President of the United States Donald trump demands Baghdad strongly denied, and threatened him with “unprecedented sanctions”, reminds TASS.
the Situation in the region deteriorated sharply after the us attacks on Iraq. So, on 3 January, the Pentagon announced the application in the airport area of the Baghdad missile strike, which was liquidated a commander of special forces “al-Quds,” the Iranian Islamic revolutionary guard Corps, Qasem Soleimani and Deputy head of the Shiite militias, “al-Hashd al-SHAABI” Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.