As the United States is deeply embroiled in the Palestinian-Israeli situation, the Middle East has gradually become the graveyard of the US military.
On January 20, the United States suffered an unprecedented major attack, according to a statement issued by the United States Central Command, that afternoon, the United States Assad Air Force Base in western Iraq was hit by a ballistic missile attack, this time, directly paralyzed the United States military base. According to the United States, the base was attacked by at least 20 rockets and ballistic missiles that day, and the "Patriot" air defense system at the base fired 15 interceptor missiles, but only some of them were intercepted. According to the pictures taken at the scene, the sky over the US military base that day was full of rockets, ballistic missiles, and the trajectory of air defense missiles, and from the satellite images of the Assad base, we can also see that this wave of air strikes has achieved quite good results, and the US military has suffered quite heavy losses.
Subsequently, the US Department of Defense also announced the casualties, and only some US soldiers and at least one member of the Iraqi security forces were injured, saying that they had a traumatic brain injury, which was not serious. However, according to information disclosed by local Syrian sources, on the same day, US helicopters delivered more than 20 coffins to Assad Air Base in batches, and a few traumatic brain injuries were enough to be used to enter the coffins? Anyway, according to Reuters and information from the Iraqi security department, this round of airstrikes did cause many US military deaths, and as for the specific number of deaths, it should be easy to judge by the number of coffins.
In the aftermath, the Islamic Resistance Movement, an armed Iraqi militia, claimed responsibility for the attack, which was a response to the "Zionist massacre of Palestinians in Gaza."
But I think the reason for the attack is not so simple, and it is likely to be related to another air strike.
Earlier on January 20, Israel carried out "assassination" airstrikes on the Hezeme area west of Damascus, Syria, killing five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) "military advisers" who were said to be in charge of Iranian intelligence in retaliation for Iran's attack on Israel's overseas "spy centers" in retaliation. According to information received by Iran, the United States is behind Israel's "assassination" airstrikes. Since there is a need for revenge, it is useless to just beat the dog, and it is only happy to beat the owner of the vicious dog together, so it is very likely that the air attack on the US military base is supported by Iran, including the statement of the US Department of Defense, which also put this account on Iran's head.
Judging by the results alone, this round of Iranian retaliation was very successful.
Of course, since the United States has suffered this big loss, it naturally refuses to give up. The latest news shows that the Pentagon has urgently deployed troops, and the US military base in Syria has urgently taken off several Chinook helicopters to reinforce it, but Iran has also been prepared for a long time, and has deployed ballistic missiles on the top of the mountain in advance, and is in a state of readiness, and can launch a missile attack at the first order.
At present, with the air strikes of the United States and Israel and the Iranian forces, the strike intensity and retaliation methods of the two sides are escalating.