TEHRAN, Jan. 13 (MNA) – The Ain al-Asad military base in Iraq’s Anbar province was targeted by IRGC airstrikes last Wednesday. IRGC launched the missiles as revenge for the US drone strike that assassinated Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani on January 3.
Al Asad Airbase IATA:none– ICAO:ORAA / KQAJ– LID:MAA Summary Airport typeMilitary: Airbase OperatorUnited States Air Force LocationAl Anbar Province, Iraq Elevation AMSL618 ft / 188 m Coordinates33°47′08.19″N42°26′28.32″E / 33.7856083°N 42.4412°ECoordinates:33°47′08.19″...
Al Asad Airbase (ICAO: ORAA / KQAJ) is the largest US military airbase in Iraq and is located in the largely Sunni western Iraq Province of Al Anbar. It was formerly the home of the II Marine Expeditionary Force until January 2010. Other major tenants include the 82nd Airborne Advise &...
Ben Ali’s regime looked the other way with regard to the non-violent Salafis. After the December 2006-January 2007 showdown between Tunisian security and a jihadi cell named Jund Asad ibn al-Furat (more famously known as the Sulayman Group), the Tunisian state arrested al-Idrisi for allege...
While President Trump visited last Thanksgiving, outside of military members, most Americans are not familar with the targeted military base. WHERE IS IT? Al Asad Airbase sits about 100 miles west of Baghdad in Anbar Province. TRUMP PLANS TO KEEP US TROOPS IN IRAQ TO ‘WATCH IRAN’ WHAT’...
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that two U.S. militaryservice members were injuredin a rocket attack on al-Asad Air Base in westernIraqearlier Wednesday. The U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad had confirmed earlier in the day that 14 rockets had been fired towards the base with some lan...
This attack comes as a security source in Al-Anbar province announced yesterday the arrival of American convoys carrying military equipment at the Ain al-Asad base in western Al-Anbar province, saying that these convoys were moving from Basra province to Al-Anbar. ...
When he arrived at Iraq’s Al Asad Air Base in April 2023, Master Sgt. Peter Pease began preparing his team of security forces to expect the unexpected. Then the unexpected came true. On Oct. 18, with less than three weeks to go in Pease’s deployment, adrone att...
focus its attacks on the Syrian government, it could eventually win the support of most Syrian opposition groups—particularly if these groups concluded that their primary goal of removing Syrian President Asad would be best served through an alliance with the Nusra Front than with the United ...
One-Six is now in its 74th consecutive day of offensive combat operations. Led by Pakistani born Lt. Col. Asad Khan, whose call sign, appropriately, is “Genghis,” and a particularly daring sergeant major, Kentuckian Thomas Hall, the three 200-man rifle companies have cover...