What do we know about the group who say that
they are behind the air base attack in Iraq?
They're an Iranian backed group.
The title Islamic Resistance in Iraq is an umbrella title
that sort of encompasses a lot of these different Shia
militia groups which have really grown in strength over the
past decade or so. And they've had many,
many, many times attacked US bases in Iraq and in
Syria 143 times since Hamas attacked Israel October 7th.
That's a lot of attacks.
They ramped it up. Why?
Because their proxies for Iran.
So this has Iran's fingerprints all over it.
What we know from the local mayor who was able
to witness this attack on the.
And air base, he saw it from a distance and
he said he could see a lot of missiles incoming.
Some of them were intercepted by missile defense systems,
but some got through. And we understand from the Pentagon
that there were injuries among US service personnel.
We don't know how many personnel.
We don't know how severe.
And this is a joint Air Force Base Iraqi military
also there.
And the Iraqi military say that at least one of
their service personnel was injured in this attack.
So this really does look like.
Are ramping up and when you take it in conjunction
of what happened in Damascus this morning.
You get the sense that this escalation everyone talks about,
this is what we may be witnessing here.