WASHINGTON, Feb 22, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The number of US troops who sustained
traumatic brain injury when Iran launched missiles at their base in Iraq last
month has risen to 110, the Pentagon said Friday.
The figure is one higher than the last toll, which was announced on
February 10.
All of the wounded were diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury, the
Pentagon said in a statement, adding that 77 had already returned to duty.
Meanwhile 35 were transported to Germany for further evaluation, of whom 25
have been sent to the United States, it added.
President Donald Trump had initially said that no Americans were hurt in
the strike on the Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq on the night of January 7-
8, although authorities later reported that nearly a dozen troops were
wounded.
Iran fired ballistic missiles at the base to retaliate for the January 3 US
drone strike that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani while he was in
Baghdad.