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Al-Asad airbase The Al-Asad air base, which houses US troops, is one of the largest and oldest military bases in Iraq.
Falling through the CracksOn the ground at al-Asad, U.S. Army Major Robert Hales, a doctor who is deployed to al-Asad, defended the initial reports of no injuries.
Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Asad Hashim, Robert Birsel
Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Tommy Wilkes, Robert Birsel
The leader is Disney, where Asad Ayaz runs worldwide marketing.
Asad M. Khan is Pakistan's ambassador to the United States.
Several slammed into Al Asad but did only minimal damage.
Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Toby Chopra
Asad Shah, 40, owned Shah's Newsagents in the southside Glasgow, Scotland.
Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Paritosh Bansal and Ian Geoghegan
Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Clarence Fernandez
No one was killed in the attack on Ain al-Asad.
A similar point is made by Amir Asad, a young Druze activist.
Osman Asad Mohamed, a migrant from southern Somalia, also witnessed the deaths.
Reporting by Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Asad Hashim; Editing by Robert Birsel
Iranian missiles caused massive craters when they hit al-Asad air base.
Yindy gets her papers to leave for the U.S. Asad does not.
There were you-go-girl mutterings when Foosiya divorced Asad in absentia.
Writing by Asad Hashim; Additional reporting by Kay Johnson; Editing by Andrew Roche
Writing and additional reporting by Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
At his speech to troops at Al Asad Airbase in Iraq on Dec.
Al Asad was an Iraqi air base until the U.S. invaded in 2003.
Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal; Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Kim Coghill
Above, American military vehicles at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq in January.
The exhibition is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza.
AIN AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - Nearly eight hours before Iran's Jan.
At al-Asad camp, troops could rest easy after days of heightened alert.
Additional reporting by Asad Hashim; Editing by Kay Johnson and Mike Collett-White
An Iranian missile attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base on Jan.
The approval came from the Economic Coordination Committee, chaired by Finance Minister Asad Umar.
Lt. David A. Bauders, of Seattle, died on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
"I am a Syrian child who suffered under Bashar al Asad & Putin," she wrote.
Prisons under consideration include the detention facility at al Asad Airbase in Anbar Province.
Additional reporting by Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD and Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN.
Asad is a refugee whose refuge, that America of riches and trucks, keeps receding.
At the age of 8, Asad, a Somali boy, watches militiamen kill his mother.
"That prompted us to re-screen pretty much the whole population of al-Asad."
But an attack on Ain al Asad air base in Anbar Province on Dec.
Pence visited Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq where U.S. troops are stationed.
"We're looking at whether people care about others based on race," Mr. Asad said.
CAIRO - (Reuters) - A second shelling was carried out at Iraq's Ain Al-Asad air base on Wednesday, according to Al Mayadeen TV. An Iraqi security source told Reuters that at least seven rockets fell inside Ain Al-Asad air base in Anbar province.
Additional reporting by Asad Hashim in Islamabad; Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Andrew Roche
"Everyone is in land-grab mode," Asad Hussain, Emerging Technology analyst at PitchBook, told Recode.
Reporting by James Mackenzie in Kabul and Asad Hashim in Islamabad; Editing by Mark Heinrich
Reporting by Asad Hashim; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Kay Johnson and Clarence Fernandez
Reporting by Ruma Paul Additional reporting by Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
Additional Reporting by Fayaz Bukhari in SRINIGAR; Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
Additional reporting by Asad Hashim, Syed Raza Hassan and Mubasher Bukhari; Editing by Nick Macfie
His brother, Zulkarnain Asad Pandit, rejected that and said he had been tortured in custody.
Speaking to troops at Al Asad Air Base, Mr. Trump defended his move in Syria.
Asad Ali, who works at a factory, said he had witnessed violence in East Delhi.
Roughly one hour later, the first missiles bound for Al Asad streaked over their heads.
AIN AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Nearly eight hours before Irans Jan.
Of the 16 missiles that were fired against US targets, 11 landed in Al Asad.
Additional reporting by Shilpla Jamkhandikar and Aditi Shah; Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Nick Macfie
Popular newsagent Asad Shah named locally as man stabbed to death on Minard Rd in Glasgow.
So the killing of Asad Shah has come as a particular shock to the British Ahmadis.
Ahmadis must hope that the brutal sectarian murder of Asad Shah will remain an isolated incident.
Addtional reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Editing by Michael Perry, Robert Birsel
Amal Asad, one of the organizers of the protest, struck a similar tone in his speech.
The hall of Parliament erupted as soon as Asad Qaiser, the speaker, announced the vote count.
Asad is portrayed by four actors — first a boy, then a woman, then two adult men.
The bases targeted were al-Asad air base and another facility in Erbil, the Pentagon said.
Trump and the first lady visited the Al Asad base in an unannounced visit in 2018.
Al Asad air base in western Iraq and at least one facility in Irbil were targeted.
The task of stitching a deal together will fall to Asad Umar, Mr Khan's probable finance minister.
Politicians have ceded more and more ground to the courts, points out Asad Rahim Khan, a lawyer.
He was deployed four times to Iraq, mostly to the Al Asad Air Base in Anbar Province.
Ms. Mohamed, the widow of Mr. Asad, the Tanzanian businessman, said he returned home paranoid and anxious.
Seth Folsom, who commands a forward special operations air base, Al-Asad, in the western Iraqi desert.
Asad Jamal, a human rights lawyer based in Lahore, Pakistan, criticized Pakistan's handling of Mr. Jadhav's case.
Most of the company members are drawn from townships like those in which Asad experienced such brutality.
Satellite pictures of al-Asad base before and after the strikes showed damage, including to aircraft hangers.
Reporting was contributed by Fatima Faizi from Kabul, Zabihullah Ghazi from Jalalabad, and Asad Timory from Herat.
"Asad Afridi was close to Omar Khalid, who had declared him his deputy," said one JuA commander.
Artist Asad J. Malik's project uses augmented reality to bring the Syrian conflict into everyday living spaces.
She is one of six people digitized for artist Asad Malik's new intentionally uncomfortable AR experience, Terminal 3.
I'm experiencing 'Terminal 3', an interactive augmented reality documentary created and directed by AR artist Asad J. Malik.
Families like that of Asad Shah, who look to Western democracies as a beacon, must not be disappointed.
Asad Mohsin, the president of the local Waikato Muslim Association, said he appreciates the gang's show of support.
And, crucially, Syria's Sunni population continues to view the Asad regime as the primary enemy in the conflict.
Mr. Asad, who died in May, was held for more than a year in several secret C.I.A. prisons.
Mr. Trump told reporters at Joint Base al Asad that he had no plans to retreat from Iraq.
He spoke from Al Asad by phone with Mr. Mahdi and invited him to visit the White House.
"Instead of blaming the major powers we should blame ourselves," said Asad Abdul Rahman, a Jordan-based delegate.
All but 30 to 40 of Denmark's personnel are now being moved from Ain al-Asad to Kuwait.
Located in Anbar Province, al-Asad airbase is one of the oldest and largest military bases in Iraq.
Trump said Iran appeared to be "standing down" after that nation attacked the Ain al-Asad airbase overnight.
Al-Asad, Iraq (CNN)United States troops at the Al-Asad air base in Iraq were aware that an Iranian attack was imminent, allowing them to take shelter two-and-a-half-hours before missiles struck on Wednesday, CNN has been told during an exclusive tour of the devastated site.
Reporting by Asad Hashim in Islamabad and Asma Alsharif in Cairo; Writing by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
Additional reporting by Asad Hashim in Islamabad and Mukesh Gupta in Pathankot, India; Editing by Douglas Busvine, Robert Birsel
Trump met with military leaders and about 100 special operations troops at Al Asad Air Base, per pool reports.
Nandy and writer Ghalib Asad Bhopali keep things straight and don't clutter the story with too many sub-plots.
Shiyo drowned, as did Asad Elmi, a pregnant woman in her twenties, and an unrelated six-month-old child.
Creator Asad Malik says the piece is based on his own experiences being repeatedly stopped and questioned at Customs.
Finance Minister Asad Umar says Pakistan has not yet made up its mind on whether to seek a bailout.
Asad Shah, who ran a flourishing newsagent's in Scotland's second city, was one of about 953,000 Ahmadis in Britain.
Finance Minister Asad Umar this month requested talks with the IMF for the country's second bailout in five years.
"Why are these terrorists now allowed to become our parliamentarians?" demanded Asad Gokal, 20, in an interview in Karachi.
Geoff Hansen was in a Humvee at Ayn al Asad when the first missile hit, blowing open a door.
Eventually, Asad pays for passage south through Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe—nearly three thousand miles, to the South African border.
Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said the bases targeted were al-Asad air base and another facility in Erbil, Iraq.
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that 10 missiles struck the Ain as-asad air base while just one hit Irbil.
A U.S. official told Reuters that rockets have been fired at Iraq's al Asad airbase, which hosts U.S. forces.
S&P 500 E-MINI FUTURES FALL 0.63% AFTER REPORT OF ROCKETS FIRED AT AL ASAD AIRBASE IN IRAQ
Cuando el presidente sirio, Bashar Al Asad, visitó Teherán el año pasado, fue Soleimani quien le dio la bienvenida.
Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN; Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Alison Williams and Stephen Powell
"The American public is demanding a wall," Trump said while on the ground at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
Asad Sarfraz, a police official, said municipal government officials were at the mosque complex removing what he called "illegal renovation".
Pakistan's former spy chief, Asad Durrani, wrote a book with his Indian counterpart to encourage dialogue between the two countries.
A video posted by Reuters appears to show missile explosions at what is suspected to be Al-Asad Air Base.
At Ayn al Asad, personnel used the same paper questionnaires that field medics used in remote infantry platoons in 2010.
The missiles were staggered but most were streaking toward Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, home to 2,000 American troops.
In the prosperous Johannesburg, Asad, a chancer with an entrepreneurial streak, believes he has found a temporary place of safety.
He visited one of the targeted sites in Iraq, Ain al-Asad air base, in December 2018, said on Twitter.
Satellite images show the damage to Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq following an Iranian missile attack early Wednesday morning.
Ten of the fifteen missiles hit al-Asad airbase, a large remote base located in the western province of Anbar.
Tuesday night Iranian forces loosed a missile barrage at Iraq's al-Asad airbase which hosts American and other coalition troops.
The images from the aftermath at Ayn al-Asad illustrate the significant potency of the missiles that hit the base.
Yamil Asad scored the first goal in franchise history to give Atlanta a 232-22007 lead in the 210th minute.
After quickly hooking a shot past Red Bulls goalkeeper Luis Robles, Asad fell to the grass near the end line.
Hadi Asad said he wanted his cartoon to point out the "money-mindedness and war monger nature" of the president.
A Jester's Tale director Asad J. Malik previously debuted the mixed-reality political commentary Terminal 3 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Additional reporting by Saud Mehsud in DERA ISMAIL KHAN and Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Christian Schmollinger
The Warthog made an emergency landing at Al Asad Air Base — which itself was under sporadic Islamic State attack — near Ramadi.
Is Islam the Koran as translated by Muhammad Asad, a polymath who dedicated the Muslim holy book "to people who think"?
While the regime maintains the advantage, an undeterred Asad will resist compromises sought by almost all opposition factions and regional actors.
Mohammed Abdullah Saleh al-Asad, a businessman in Tanzania, and others were snatched, interrogated and imprisoned, then sent home without explanation.
Trump recently inflamed tensions over the Ain al-Asad base when he made an unannounced visit without meeting any Iraqi officials.
Asad scored nine goals with eight assists for Atlanta United FC and had seven goals and 13 assists for D.C. United.
Earlier this month, Iran fired ballistic missiles from its soil at Ain Asad base in Iraq where American forces were located.
Dado que hablaba árabe pudo tranquilizar a los comandantes locales mientras los usaba para crear una red de apoyo para Asad.
The image showed Iranian rockets being fired at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, not the funeral procession for Maj. Gen.
Soldiers stand at the site where an Iranian missile hit Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq, Jan. 13.
The Iranian attack on the Al-Asad airbase was one of two on Iraqi military bases housing US troops on Wednesday.
Additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales in MANILA and Khettiya Jittapong in JAKARTA; Writing by Asad Hashim; Editing by Mike Collett-White
Tariq Asad, chairman of Civil Society of Pakistan, said the organization filed its police complaint in outrage after reading about the case.
Finance minister Asad Umar had said in October that Pakistan would seek an IMF funding package, its 13th since the late 1980s.
Earlier this month, Finance Minister Asad Umar visited Washington for meetings with the IMF, which on Monday called the talks "constructive discussions".
Asad Durrani, a retired Lieutenant General, was head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country's powerful spy agency, from 1990 to 1992.
A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, carried out the attack, according to the faction's spokesman, Asad Mansur.
Said Abdullahi Deni, who is likely to continue Puntland's close cooperation with the United States, defeated his closest rival, Asad Osman Abdullahi.
La artista siria Azza Abo Rebieh fue encarcelada en 2011 aparemente por sus obras críticas hacia el régimen de Bashar al Asad.
Mr. Trump told reporters on the ground at Joint Base al Asad that he had no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq.
If they do what will they find there — the trucks Asad dreamed of as a boy or the guns and the gangs?
" "You saw what happened when that air raid -- when those missiles were fired from Iran into Iraq at al Asad air base.
Around 130 Danish personnel were stationed at the Ain al-Asad air base as part of an international coalition fighting Islamic State.
The children killed in the crash, in the south of Punjab province, were aged six to 10, said police officer Asad Sarfaraz said.
Because what she wore after her three-hour surprise visit to Al Asad Airbase in Iraq was an optical illusion – an unfortunate one.
"Reach 358" departed Al Asad Airbase for Joint Base Andrews by way of Ramstein Air Base moments after reporters were able to file.
"We wanted it to feel like an epic, important, seminal, can't-miss event," said Asad Ayaz, president of marketing at Walt Disney Studios.
Sin embargo, el presidente sirio, Bashar al Asad, indicó que su promesa de no abrir fuego desmedido contra Idlib es una "medida temporal".
The Iranian missile strikes on forces at al-Asad and Irbil, a response to the US drone strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen.
At the height of the battle for Mosul, the U.S. Air Force field hospital at Al-Asad Air Base treated many Iraqi soldiers.
"I'd received information it was going to be a missile attack, and it was going to be Ain al-Asad," said Lt. Col.
Finally, Asad, after all the horrors and hardships of his life, receives notification that his immigration application to the U.S. has been approved.
Six days later, Iran responded with its own counterstrike, launching 16 missiles at the al-Asad airbase and another site in Iraq's north.
The al-Asad airbase was one of the two Iraqi military bases that house U.S. troops targeted by Iran in its retaliatory strike.
Iran&aposs attacks on the Ayn al-Asad Air Base demonstrate the country&aposs ability to accurately strike targets that are far away.
Al-Asad airbase also houses British forces, and was the second-largest U.S. military airbase used in the country during the Iraq War.
Reporting was contributed by the following New York Times reporters: Najim Rahin from Kunduz, Asad Timory from Herat and Taimoor Shah from Kandahar.
While tensions along the disputed border have somewhat cooled, the situation remains "serious," Islamabad's ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, said Monday.
Additional reporting by Fayaz Bukhari in Srinagar and Asad Hashim in Islamabad; Writing by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Nick Macfie and Mike Collett-White
Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar earlier this month visited Washington for talks with the IMF, which on Monday described those talks as "constructive discussions".
A further indication of a wider austerity policy is likely to come on Tuesday, when Finance Minister Asad Umar announces revisions to the budget.
Health officials named the men as Ahmed Munir Suleiman Al-Bassous, 28, Obaida Asad Khader Farwana, 29, and Mohammed Tawfiq Mohammed Al-Ara'ir, 27.
The Pentagon said Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the Asad and Erbil bases in Iraq, where American troops are stationed.
We don't know whether servicemembers at Al Asad were injured by the blast pressure directly rather than being knocked over and hitting their heads.
On Tuesday, Iranian state television said Tehran had launched "tens" of missiles at Iraq's Al Asad air base, which houses US troops, in retaliation.
Denmark had around 130 personnel stationed at the Al-Asad base as part of the international coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Rockets were shot at multiple targets including Iraq's al Asad airbase, which hosts U.S. forces, U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.
On Monday, days after Iranian ballistic missiles struck Ain al-Asad base in Iraq, US troops there began cleaning up the rubble and debris.
Iran targeted the al-Asad airbase, which houses US troops, and American and coalition forces in Erbil, according to Jonathan Hoffman, a Pentagon spokesperson.
The al-Asad air base was familiar to him -- it was where he touched down during his only trip to Iraq in December 2018.
Eleven hit Al Asad airbase in Iraq&aposs Anbar province, and one hit an open field in Erbil in the northern autonomous Kurdish region.
Positioned to the left of the goal, Asad waved his arm to show he was open, and Tyrone Mears delivered a well-placed pass.
Additional reporting by Ahmad Sultan in NANGARHAR, Afghanistan and Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Writing by Kay Johnson; Editing by Mike Collett-White and Robin Pomeroy
He said Ain al-Asad could be used for U.S. air strikes inside Syria following his announcement last week to withdraw U.S. troops from there.
Despite both sides' fierce rhetoric, it was unlikely there would be a military escalation at this point, IHS Global Insight analyst Asad Ali told CNN.
This year anti-Ahmadi hatred seemed to break out in Britain, with the murder in March of a popular Glasgow shop-keeper called Asad Shah.
The EAC held its first session last week, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, who took office last month, along with Finance Minister Asad Umar.
"While you come from the rest of us, you&aposre the best of us," Pence told service members in a dusty hangar at Al-Asad.
As brutal as Da'esh is, it is the Asad regime that is responsible for the vast majority of the thousands of victims in this conflict.
Asad Umar, a private-sector businessman whom economists view as a populist with a thin grasp of the challenges ahead, was named as finance minister.
The images, taken by Planet Labs and first reported by NPR, show that multiple structures at Al-Asad Air Base were hit during the attack.
More than 100 US troops hammered in an Iranian missile attack on Al-Asad Air Base in Iraq have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury.
U.S. military officials said they had been anticipating a strike of some sort at al-Asad and that personnel at the base had taken precautions.
The new finance minister, Asad Umar, a former businessman, says that money from Saudi Arabia and China solves his cash-flow problems for the coming year.
The society's executive director, Asad Zaman, said the imam's window was broken and cited a witness who saw someone standing by the window before the explosion.
Reporting by Gul Yousufzai; Additional reporting by Asad Hashim in Islamabad and Saud Mehsud in Dera Ismail Khan; Writing by Krista Mahr; Editing by Andrew Bolton
Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar said in October that Saudi Arabia has inquired about investing in Reko Diq and another government official confirmed talks were ongoing.
Several of the terrorist attacks took place near the town of Albaghdadi, about 10 miles north of the large al-Asad military base in Anbar province.
Rizwan Asad Pandit, a chemistry graduate who taught at a private school, according to his family, had been arrested as part of a "terror case investigation".
Asad Umar, widely tipped to become the new finance minister, told Reuters last month that Khan's government would not rule out either Chinese or IMF support.
Pakistan's Finance Ministry Asad Umar said on Monday the government would seek to open talks with the IMF in Bali this week for emergency financial assistance.
In the interim, Asad will sign a short-term deal to play for Louden United, D.C. United's USL team, which has 10 games remaining this season.
"You haven't gotten one in more than 10 years — more than 10 years," he told about 100 uniformed troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
The United States did not have Patriot air defenses deployed to al-Asad air base in Iraq, where at least 11 of Iran's ballistic missiles struck.
Ultimately, the US forces at al-Asad were only given about 15 minutes to head for cover before the missiles landed, The New York Times reported.
Al-Baghdadi, about 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Baghdad, is the closest village to the Al Asad Air Base, where the US military has planes.
"But you all know partisan politics and endless investigations have slowed things down in Washington, D.C." Trump visited troops at al-Asad Air Base on Dec.
American military officials said that Iran had launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. military and coalition forces, targeting the Asad and Erbil bases.
Los misiles fueron escalonados, pero la mayoría impactaron hacia la base aérea Al Asad en Irak, hogar de dos mil efectivos del ejército de Estados Unidos.
Jamaat ur Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a message sent to Reuters by its spokesman, Asad Mansur.
Asad Mansoor, a spokesman for Jamaat-ul Ahrar, said the suicide bomber was named Seth Nazir, also known as Ab Durda, from the Mohmand tribal region.
As Trump later tweeted, he spent his time in Iraq meeting with US troops at the Al Asad Air Base, shaking hands and signing MAGA hats.
Reporting by Krista Mahr and Asad Hashim in Islamabad, Syed Raza Hassan in Karachi and Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore; Writing by Krista Mahr; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
"This outrageous attack came at a time of peace and prayer," said Asad Zaman, director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, in reference to the bombing.
Pakistan's envoy to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, said Islamabad would like to see the Trump administration play a more active role in easing the crisis.
Reporting by Mubasher Bukhari in Lahore, Asad Hashim and Krista Mahr in Islamabad and Syed Raza Hassan in Karachi; Writing by Krista Mahr; Editing by Richard Borsuk
The killing was particularly shocking because the victim, Asad Shah, was a member of the pacifist Ahmadiya sect, and his assailant was a Sunni Muslim from Bradford.
But Pakistani artist Asad J. Malik, known by his alias 1RIC, is tackling our indifference to the war with a mixed reality experience called Holograms from Syria.
Reporting was contributed by Mujib Mashal from Doha, Qatar; Fatima Faizi and Najim Rahim from Kabul, Afghanistan; Asad Timory from Herat; and Farooq Jan Mangal from Khost.
The president traveled on Wednesday with his wife, Melania, to Al Asad Air Base, where he visited U.S. troops and defended his decision to withdraw from Syria.
The exhibition, Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking at the Americas Society, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza, has stayed with me.
Those service members from al-Asad airbase in Iraq were "treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed" in Germany and Kuwait, Capt.
Trump's trip comes a week after Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to Iraq's Al Asad airbase and served meals to the servicemen and women.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Five rockets landed on Tuesday on Ain al-Asad airbase, which hosts U.S. forces in Anbar province in western Iraq, an Iraqi military statement said.
Tomaron el apellido Nazario, gracias a un agente migratorio argentino que le dijo a mi tío abuelo Asad Eben Naser Loush que nadie podría pronunciar su nombre.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rockets have been fired at Iraq's al Asad airbase, which hosts U.S. forces, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
EST about strikes against the Al-Asad base in Baghdad and a base in Erbil in northern Iraq following the killing of General Qassem Soleimani on Thursday.
Iran vowed retaliation and, predictably, they launched a ballistic missile attack against U.S. bases at Al-Asad and Irbil in Iraq (fortunately, there are no reported casualties).
An aerial view of the Ain al-Asad air base, a sprawling complex in the western Anbar desert that hosts US forces, following a series of attacks.
Members of the military wait outside facilities where President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were visiting at Al Asad air base in Iraq on Dec.
Three hours later, a hail of ballistic missiles launched from Iran crashed into two bases in Iraq, including Al Asad, where roughly 1,000 American troops are stationed.
Along with al Asad to the south, the facility is one of two Iraqi bases Iran attacked with more than a dozen ballistic missiles on Tuesday night.
According to reports, Iran fired around 16 short-range ballistic missiles at two bases with a US presence in Iraq, Ayn al-Asad and Arbil International Airport.
Of 22 missiles fired early Wednesday by Iran at coalition bases in Iraq, 17 hit the al-Asad air base, the Iraqi military said in a statement.
The al-Asad air base in Iraq was hit by at least six missiles about midnight local time, said a U.S. defense official familiar with the situation.
The base, Ayn Al Asad, in western Iraq, was one of two hit last week in an Iranian attack in retaliation for the killing of Maj. Gen.
Iran launched ballistic missiles against two bases in Iraq that house U.S. forces, including the Ain al-Asad base about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad, on Jan.
"It is a kind of a recognition that people are being persecuted in Pakistan for their belief and freedom of expression," his lawyer, Asad Jamal, told Reuters.
"We would certainly like to have more, and would certainly like to see more active involvement of the United States," Asad M. Khan, the envoy, told reporters.
"We spent a fortune on building this incredible base, we might as well keep it," Trump told CBS, alluding to the Ayn al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq.
Asad, who was part of the meetings, told Israel's YNET news that Netanyahu refused to sit with someone who accused the Israeli leader of running an apartheid state.
Khan's economic agenda is likely to be entrusted to Asad Umar, the former chief executive of Engro, Pakistan's biggest conglomerate, widely tipped to be chosen as finance minister.
"Pakistan is paying the heavy cost of an ongoing energy crisis prevailing for the last many years," Finance Minister Asad Umar said last week in a budget speech.
He was met with a standing ovation from about 100 American servicewomen and men at Al Asad Air Base, some of them wearing "Make America Great Again" caps.
The United States now has 5,200 troops in Iraq, mostly spread between two main bases, including Al Asad in western Anbar Province, which Mr. Trump visited in December.
Asad Zaman, the executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, called the attack an "unprovoked hate crime" during a news conference with the governor on Sunday.
Ain al-Asad air base was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles on Wednesday, in retaliation for the U.S. drone strike that killed atop Iranian commander, Gen.
At al-Asad base, which bore the bulk of the attack, US troops received advance warning, and most had already taken cover in bunkers when the missiles struck.
Instead of specifically targeting US troops at al-Asad airbase and Erbil, it appears Tehran may have missed them on purpose, leading to zero US or Iraqi casualties.
Army General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said he believed the attack had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at al-Asad.
Hours after the Iranian attack on al-Asad airbase, reports emerged that flight PS752, a Boeing 737-800, crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Two Iraqi security officials told AP that at least one of the missiles appeared to have struck a plane at the Ain al-asad base, starting a fire.
Finally, the American military detected the missile launches in Iran and determined their likely targets, giving the military personnel at Asad Air Base 15 minutes to take cover.
Anxiety In another part of Raleigh, Hanadi Asad pulls back her long dark hair and dons an apron advertising Cajun Joe's, the chicken franchise her father once owned.
The militias have also hit several Iraqi bases where Americans were billeted, including in Gayara, just south of Mosul, and in western Iraq near Al Asad Air Base.
The finance ministry has not said how much money Pakistan needs but the minister, Asad Umar, said it has external debt payments of about $8 billion due by December.
Also last week, Lahore journalist Asad Kharal, was wounded in a mysterious attack and earlier this month, 37 activists from Pakistani tribes were detained for rallying against the military.
Co-host Lisa Kennedy defended Trump's remarks during his trip to the Al Asad Airbase, saying that the president's comments were meant to praise the bravery of U.S. troops.
In "A Man of Good Hope," Isango enacts, through speech, music and dance from several African cultures, the harrowing tale of Asad Abdullahi, a Somalian migrant to South Africa.
Tolerating the Asad regime's gross human rights violations against the Syrian people undermines, both morally and materially, the unity of the anti-Da'esh coalition, particularly among Sunni Arab partners.
Asad Dandia, a founder of Muslims Giving Back and a plaintiff in a class-action suit against the Police Department over its surveillance tactics, also gives an oral history.
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London), Gabriela Rangel (Chief Curator and Director of Visual Arts, Americas Society), and Asad Raza (Artist). as-coa.
The editor in chief of Mashregh, the main news website for Iran's Revolutionary Guards, said more than 30 ballistic missiles had been fired at the American base at Asad.
CAIRO - (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted Iraq's Ain Al-Asad air base in west Iraq on Wednesday, according to Mehr, the Iranian news agency.
Washington said Iran launched 16 short-range ballistic missiles in Wednesday's strikes, with at least 11 hitting Iraq's al-Asad air base and one striking a facility in Erbil.
The Ain al-asad air base, which currently houses around 1,500 U.S. and coalition troops, was first used by American forces after the 2003 war that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Ferguson survived unscathed along with other US troops and civilian contractors on Iraq's al-Asad base, after a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles on the morning of January 103.
"We would certainly like to have more, and would certainly like to see more active involvement of the United States," said Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Asad Khan.
"Annexing the settlements will end any possibility for a two-state solution and the establishment of a Palestinian state," said Asad al-Dein, 24, an engineering student in Ramallah.
Captain Dean Sprouting of the Adjutant General's Corps died at Al Asad Air Base, a joint US-Iraqi facility in the west of the country, on 31st January 2018.
"We hope that this case could be expedited and could go to trial soon for a decision," Asad Alam Siam, Bangladesh's ambassador to the Philippines, told Reuters, regarding the charges.
Created by: Asad J. Malik A Jester's Tale is something between a fairy tale and a CAPTCHA test, and it's by far the weirdest of three Magic Leap-based installations.
He spoke two days after Finance Minister Asad Umar told local Samaa TV that deferred oil payments had been discussed with the Saudi delegation but no decision had been made.
"Very early on, we wanted to pitch it like a movie, treating it like a great blockbuster piece of entertainment," said Asad Qizilbash, PlayStation's global vice president of exclusive games.
Growing up in North Waziristan, where Pakistan borders Afghanistan, Asad Ullah Khan developed a forensic interest in the structures that were being hit by the falling bombs of drone warfare.
Qazi Asad-uz-Zaman, a sociologist who worked with sex workers in Banishanta, told me there are 14 registered brothels in the country, but also many hundreds more unlicensed ones.
Iraqi officials already have pushed back on the placement of Patriot missile batteries, installed to help intercept Iranian ballistic missiles like those launched in January at Al Asad Air Base.
While the standoff over the contested Kashmir region has cooled following the release of the pilot, the situation remains "serious," Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, said Monday.
Pakistan disputes this -- Islamabad's ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, called the claim "ridiculous" in remarks Monday night -- but acknowledges that Indian jets had dropped payload within its borders.
They took the name Nazario, thanks to an Argentine migration agent who told my great-uncle Asad Eben Naser Loush that no one would be able to pronounce his name.
Hace nueve años, Leila se unió a las manifestaciones pacíficas en contra del brutal autoritarismo de Asad, las cuales se convirtieron en un levantamiento armado y después en una guerra.
OSLO (Reuters) - No Norwegian soldiers were injured or killed in Iran's missile strike on the Al-Asad air base in Iraq, a Norwegian military spokesman told Reuters early on Wednesday.
Another U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, had confirmed to Reuters earlier that a rocket attack had taken place against al Asad airbase, but did not confirm other sites.
Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umar recently said the country may need more than $12 billion to plug its finances as the current-account deficit widens and foreign-currency reserves plummet.
Al-Asad air base, Iraq (CNN)Akeem Ferguson was in a bunker when his team received the bone-chilling radio transmission: Six Iranian ballistic missiles were headed in their direction.
The al-Asad air base in western Iraq, which houses some American troops, was hit by at least six missiles, according to a U.S. defense official familiar with the situation.
The tweets said 17 missiles hit in the area of the al-Asad air base with two not exploding and five missiles hit Irbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdish region.
En dos ocasiones Trump ordenó ataques con misiles contra el gobierno de Bashar al-Asad en Siria en respuesta a los ataques químicos a civiles ahí, algo que Obama descartó.
"Lyft is much more a bet on a pure-play US ride-sharing market," said Asad Hussain, emerging tech analyst at PitchBook, a research firm that covers private capital markets.
Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan's U.S. ambassador said the country is committed to a diplomatic solution of the crisis, including direct talks with India, and is seeking UN and U.S. intervention.
Khan late on Thursday announced 20193 ministerial appointments in a shakeup that included the departure of Finance Minister Asad Umar, who has been a close ally to Khan for many years.
In post-2011 wartorn Syria, nations of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar, among others, funded many factions of the Free Syrian Army that fought against the dictatorship of Bashar al-Asad.
Asad Qaiser, a Khan loyalist, defeated Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Syed Khurshid Shah, who was backed by lawmakers from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that held power last term.
According to Snowflake founder Asad Khan, the idea was to make the most exquisite dessert experience anyone could have — that is, if the steep price tag isn't too hard to swallow.
Iran fired at least 22 missiles at Ain al-Asad and another base near the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil that also hosts U.S. forces, the Iraqi military has said.
For the second half, the students moved forward to fill a few empty rows—all wanted to get closer to the drama, as Asad made a new life in a township.
A spokesperson for US Central Command told me that Iran fired 15 missiles: Ten struck al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad, Iraq; one struck Erbil in northern Iraq; and four failed.
The Pentagon confirmed the attack, saying missiles were aimed at US and coalition forces at two military bases in the region: Al Asad west of Baghdad and Erbil in northern Iraq.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - No Danish soldiers were injured or killed in Wednesday's missile strike on the Al-Asad air base in Iraq, the Danish armed forces said in a post on Twitter.
Moreover, a US military official and senior administration official told CNN that the initial assessment is that the Iranian missiles hit areas of the al-Asad base not populated by Americans.
Artist Asad J. Malik, though, is creating an alternative sphere that is far from easing the mind — one that brings the traumas of distant wars into the everyday experiences of Americans.
Osman Asad Mohamed, who understood Arabic from living in Yemen, said the proposal came from a tall, thin, pale-colored smuggler, the one who had cut the ropes between the two ships.
"Zaki was running a campaign against religious intolerance and social injustice on social media by peaceful protests," said Asad Iqbal Butt of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent rights group.
In an interview with CNN's "New Day," the Democrat and Army veteran knocked Trump for bringing a political message to Iraq's Al Asad Airbase, where Trump visited with service members this week.
"You just got one of the biggest pay raises you've ever received," Trump said while speaking at Al Asad Airbase near Baghdad in his first trip to a combat zone as president.
But one tenant, Asad Rahman, who lived directly above two of the screens, continued pressing the issue, saying that he kept hearing sounds from films and from the theater's air-conditioning equipment.
With rosters frozen, though, and Asad out of fitness after not playing for two months, D.C. United will have to wait until next season to put its new midfielder into the mix.
"Donald Trump's misogynist, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant views have contributed to a spike in Islamophobic and other hate crimes in the U.S.," War on Want's executive director, Asad Rehman, told VICE News.
And even more recently, the Islamic Republic of Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at targets in Iraq, including the Ain al-Asad air base housing Iraqi and U.S. troops.
Al Asad Air Base, along with an air base near Erbil in northern Iraq, were targeted in retaliation for a drone strike by the United States on Friday that killed Maj. Gen.
Mr. Pence's trip came 11 months after President Trump made a similar, unannounced visit to Al Asad, just days after announcing that he was pulling American troops out of Syria and Afghanistan.
Yet Wednesday morning's missile strikes against al-Asad airbase and Erbil airport -- both of which play host to US troops -- were clearly not an act designed to kill the most Americans possible.
Much will depend on how the United States evaluates Iran's attacks on the al-Asad air base west of Baghdad and in Erbil in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Trump's trip to U.S. servicemen and women at al-Asad Airbase in western Iraq on Wednesday was unannounced and the subject of extreme security, which is routine for presidential visits to conflict regions.
Denmark will still have around 180 military personnel posted to the al-Asad air base in Iraq, and contribute to radar surveillance as part of an international coalition fighting the Islamist militant group.
Trump said the United States has spent a "fortune" on the Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, which he visited in December, and that the United States should hold on to it.
"If they want us to do the fighting, they also have to pay a price," Trump said at the Al Asad Air Base, where he landed after dark with his wife, Melania Trump.
"As a refugee, once you see that your talent is useful and needed, you get a sense that you can keep going," added Mr. Asad, who received asylum in the Netherlands last summer.
"What we had to go through, with the darkened plane, with all windows closed," he said of his descent in a dimmed Air Force One to an airstrip at Al Asad Air Base.
It is far from certain that the Asad regime would consent to such an arrangement, yet the Kurds might well be forgiven for opting to take their chances on the battlefield without it.
While no troops were killed in the strike on Iraq's Al-Asad air base, "several were treated for concussion symptoms from the blast and are still being assessed," U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt.
Grynkewich also said Wednesday that he visited al-Asad in the days immediately after the strike and found that the missiles had landed tens of meters away from bunkers housing the U.S. troops.
Pakistan's ambassador, Asad Majeed Khan, emphasized in an interview with The New York Times editorial board that the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues were separate and that he was not attempting to link them.
Still, the brunt of Iran&aposs attack was Ayn al-Asad, which was hit by about 10 of Iran&aposs more reliable Fateh-110 missiles (and possibly its more modern Fateh-313 variant).
COPENHAGEN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - No Danish soldiers were injured or killed in Wednesday's missile strike on the Al-Asad air base in Iraq, the Danish armed forces said in a post on Twitter.
But the Pentagon last week revealed 11 U.S. troops were evacuated from Iraq and taken to hospitals in Germany and Kuwait for treatment for concussions suffered during attack on Al Asad Air Base.
On his second trip to the region in a little over a month, Pence visited the Al Asad Air Force Base in western Iraq, where he delivered remarks to roughly 150 service members.
Upon arrival at the Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, Pence received a closed-door classified briefing and then called Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi, according to a pool report.
Pakistan's ambassador, Asad Majeed Khan, emphasized in an interview with The New York Times editorial board that the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues were separate and that he was not attempting to link them.
The president and first lady met with troops stationed at Al Asad Airbase in the country's northwest, posing for selfies and photographs with service members who were spending the holidays away from their families.
Asad Hussain, a PitchBook analyst and an expert in mobility, ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles, sees the company's decision as part of a broader trend consistent with the challenges that self-driving technology presents.
Asad Mansoor, a spokesman for Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a splinter faction of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility, saying it was part of a campaign launched last month to target "enemies of Islam" across Pakistan.
CBS reports that security footage from the casino is thought to show Williams and Townsel targeting Asad as she entered, following her from an entrance to a public bathroom before emerging four minutes later.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will temporarily move some of its military personnel from the Al-Asad air base in Iraq that was targeted in an Iranian missile strike on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mettle Frederiksen said.
Hayder Hamzoz of the Iraqi Network for Social Media posted pictures showing one of the missiles that missed their target, landing in the village of Hitan, 83 miles from the Ain al-Asad airbase.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will temporarily move some of its military personnel from the Al-Asad air base in Iraq that was targeted in an Iranian missile strike on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mettle Frederiksen said.
Still, using information from the satellites and US aircraft in the region -- which had intercepted Iranian communications -- US intelligence analysts quickly determined that two bases in Iraq were the targets, al-Asad and Erbil.
The attack prompted Iran to retaliate by launching more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq's western Anbar province and a base in Irbil in the country's north.
Background: The Pentagon revealed last week 11 U.S. troops were evacuated from Iraq and taken to hospitals in Germany and Kuwait for treatment for concussions suffered during Iran's attack on Al Asad Air Base.
"An agreement in principle has been reached with IMF," he announced in a tweet, hours after Pakistan's Finance Minister Asad Umar returned home from Washington where he had meetings with the IMF and World Bank.
Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar earlier this month visited Washington for talks with the IMF on a long delayed bailout programme, which would be Pakistan's 13th such rescue by the IMF since the late 1980s.
As the bailout talks neared culmination, Khan shook up his top economic team, replacing Asad Umar with Hafeez Shaikh as finance minister and making IMF economist Reza Baqir central bank governor instead of Tariq Bajwa.
It took Atlanta less than 25 minutes to score their first goal and send the crowd into a frenzy, Argentine midfielder Yamil Asad ghosting in unmarked at the far post to prod home a cross.
Bryan Buckley: For [his previous film] Asad, we went to South Africa and didn't know what we were doing—we'd go into the community, go to the chief, give them the script, and recruit them.
One of the last exhibitions I did there together with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza was on Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant on the archipelagic thinking, which is what I want to do here.
The film was made by designer Patricia Wu Wu in collaboration with Asad Khan, a CGI artist who grew up on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan and makes abstract, often fractal-based video art.
Patriot missiles, which are used against high-flying missiles, would help counter any future Iranian ballistic missile strikes, much like the ones against Ayn al Asad and Erbil in January, which wounded dozens of Americans.
Iran fired missiles at the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. killing of a top Revolutionary Guard general, Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike at Baghdad airport on Jan. 3.
U.S. troops at Ayn al Asad Air Base in western Iraq hunkered down in concrete bunkers last month as Iranian missile strikes rocked the runway, destroying guard towers, hangars and buildings used to fly drones.
Iran  Eleven American service members were injured in last week's Iranian missile attack on al-Asad air base in Iraq, a US military official told CNN, despite the Pentagon initially saying there were no casualties.
During remarks to U.S. troops at the Al Asad Air Base, he made mention of "partisan politics and endless investigations" back in Washington slowing down the ability to get troops the resources that they need.
Iran fired a barrage of missiles at the Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq in early January, a few days after the top Iranian military commander was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq.
Trump also at one point Sunday suggested that American forces wouldn't leave Iraq unless the country paid the U.S. back for its "expensive air base" there, an apparent reference to the Al Asad Air Base.
Sirens were heard and American helicopters were seen flying over Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province early on Wednesday, according to al Mayadeen TV. (Reporting by Aaron Sheldrick; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
There are an estimated 6,000 troops stationed across the country, including in the Green Zone, Baghdad's walled-off diplomatic area, and at al-Asad Air Base, where Vice President Pence visited U.S. troops in November.
It&aposs still unclear whether tensions with Iran will continue to escalate after the regime launched 15 ballistic missiles Tuesday evening at Al Asad and Erbil, two locations where US forces are located in Iraq.
On Thursday night, the Pentagon revealed that 11 U.S. troops were evacuated from Iraq and taken to hospitals in Germany and Kuwait for treatment for concussions suffered during Iran's attack on Al Asad Air Base.
The service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, due to traumatic brain injury symptoms and of "out of an abundance of caution," according to a statement by US Central Command (CENTCOM).
During remarks to U.S. troops at the Al Asad Air Base, he made mention of "partisan politics and endless investigations" back in Washington slowing down the ability to get troops the resources that they need.
Asad Ali, a United Kingdom-based analyst at IHS, said the ISIS branch is "not as strong as they would like to be" and doesn't have the capability to match the Taliban at this point.
The defence minister or railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafique are the most likely successors, says Asad Ali, Asia country risk analyst at IHS Markit, but he warns there's risk of a split within the party.
Until Mr. Trump visited Al Asad Air Base in December, highlighting the American presence in the country, the American military had kept a low profile, working closely with the Iraqi Army against the Islamic State.
What other plane carrying a full-sized bed, a bathroom with a shower, a presidential desk, and a mini operating suite could land, for example, at the far-flung Al-Asad Airbase in Afghanistan's Anbar province?
Finance Minister Asad Umar said on Tuesday that "Pakistan's immediate balance of payment crisis is over", adding that the combined Saudi support plus as-yet-unspecified aid promised by China had shored up foreign currency reserves.
Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and speaking at the Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad, Trump defended the withdrawal from Syria and said it was made possible by the defeat of Islamic State militants.
Trump's trip to Iraq began when Air Force One left just after midnight from Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C. The presidential jet landed under the cover of darkness on Wednesday at the Al Asad Airbase.
Yamil Asad will return to MLS for a third time, under a contract with D.C. United, but he will not take the field until the start of the start of next season, the Washington Post reported.
American forces operate from two Iraqi bases in the western part of the country: one outside Qaim and the larger, established Asad air base, which is used as the logistics center and resupply hub for Qaim.
The angry reaction came a day after Mr. Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, visited the Al Asad Air Base, where American forces are part of a coalition that has been battling Islamic State extremists.
In an interview with Axios on Friday, Pakistani ambassador to Washington Asad Majeed Khan called for a stronger global pushback against India and said Pakistan would "go all the way" to "defend the rights" of Kashmiris.
Reuters video footage of the Ain al-Asad base in Northern Iraq after it was hit by Iranian missiles on January 8 went viral last week and appeared on 300 news channels, including CBS Morning News.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes there have been potentially multiple attacks on locations in Iraq, including the al Asad airbase that hosts U.S. forces, a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday, without providing additional information.
The disclosure helps explain why the United States did not have Patriot air defenses deployed to locations like al-Asad air base in Iraq, where at least 11 of Iran's ballistic missiles struck in Wednesday's attack.
U.S. troops at the al-Asad airbase in Iraq were aware that an attack by the Iranians was coming hours before missiles struck on Wednesday, allowing them to flee the site, according to a CNN report.
U.S. crews at the Ain al-Asad military base in western Iraq cleared debris from the scene of an Iranian missile strike on Monday, with officials telling reporters that at least 10 missiles struck the airfield.
Battle damage assessments of the overnight attack — which saw more than a dozen ballistic missiles hit Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq's western Anbar province and a base in Erbil in the country's north — are ongoing.
"Out of an abundance of caution, some service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base, Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, others were sent to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for follow-on screening," Col.
AYN AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq — The first of several Iranian missiles to hit the American military base rammed into the airstrip, nearly destroying a guard tower where two young army specialists were on watch duty.
Lagarde said in a statement that the request came during her meeting with Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar, and central bank governor Tarik Bajwa on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bali.
Earlier this week Asad Umar, widely expected to be appointed Finance Minister, told the English-language Dawn newspaper that Pakistan turning to the IMF would be a "fallback option" and that all other possibilities are being explored.
Additional reporting by Ayesha Rascoe, Susan Heavey and Arshad Mohammed in WASHINGTON and Tommy Wilkes and Asad Hashim in ISLAMABAD; Writing by Mike Collett-White and Lincoln Feast; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Paul Tait and Richard Balmforth
Trump then explained that since the United States has spent a "fortune" on the Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, which he made a surprise visit to in December, the U.S. will hold on to it.
"This parliament's majority is fake, this prime minister is fake," said Asad Mahmood, parliamentary leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) religious political party, which says it unfairly lost seats in the northwest to Khan's party.
"Iranian-backed militias are now shelling Iraqi bases with American and anti-ISIS Coalition forces on them -- Balad, al-Asad, et cetera," the US State Department's Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker told reporters Friday.
The September 2019 attack on Saudi Arabia&aposs Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities, as well as the assault on Ayn al-Asad, illustrate how Iran retains potent capabilities even if its conventional military technology remains woefully outdated.
BURNED OUT LIVING QUARTERS, FUEL FIRES Iran fired at least 22 missiles at Ain al-Asad and another base near the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil that also hosts U.S. forces, the Iraqi military has said.
An initial assessment is the Iranian missiles struck areas of the al-Asad base that are not populated by Americans, according to a US military official and a senior administration official, though a full assessment is underway.
This week's sojourn is a working visit rather than a state one, despite Trump's planned meeting with Queen Elizabeth II. CNBC spoke with Asad Rehman, a local activist and member of the recently-formed Stop Trump Coalition.
Asad Malik, a lecturer in Jamia's law department, said school officials had stood by the campus gates, checking ID cards to ensure only students entered the nearly 100-year-old public university amid the chaos on Sunday.
"Every Pakistani has awareness of this issue and many have asked us to take this up ... Whoever does not love the Prophet, Peace Be Upon Him, more than his own family is not a true Muslim," Asad said.
These include principal Lauren Kolodny, who previously worked in product marketing at Google; Vishal Lugani, who'd previously spent three-and-a-half years with Greycroft Partners; and Asad Khaliq, who previously worked as a management consultant at PwC.
We further recognize that the risk of further deterioration in U.S.-Russian relations is significant and that military steps to stop the Asad regime's relentless bombardment of the Syrian people may yield a number of second-order effects.
In the last stages of the bailout talks, Mr. Khan replaced almost all the top members of that team, most notably Asad Umar, a popular politician with a populist bent who was removed as finance minister last month.
At the sprawling Ain al-Asad base in Iraq's western Anbar desert on Monday, U.S. Air Force and Army teams cleared piles of metal and concrete debris from the airfield and around bunkers using bulldozers and pickup trucks.
Racism, South African style, was explored: Somali immigrants expressed disdain for the locals ("We think of black South African men as teen-agers," Asad says) and were resented in return ("They steal our jobs; they steal our women").
She is a daughter of Dr. Bina Ahmed and Dr. Asad Ahmed of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The groom, 32, practices internal medicine at the WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, Pa. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.
More than 100 American service members have traumatic brain injuries from Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq in January, the Defense Department said, a number that was more than 50 percent higher than previously disclosed.
Hasta que comenzó la ofensiva del gobierno la primavera pasada, Idlib había mantenido una estabilidad frágil bajo un cese al fuego mediado por Rusia, que respalda a Asad, y Turquía, que apoyaba a las fuerzas de la oposición.
"Pompeo's expression of concern about what he deems to be a cover-up by #Iran over #corona comes while no exact news about the truth of #Ain al-Asad...has been published by the White House," Shamkhani tweeted.
Iran on Tuesday night launched over a dozen ballistic missiles on two Iraqi military bases hosting U.S. troops, al-Asad air base in western Iraq and military sites near Erbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq.
At the sprawling Ain al-Asad base in Iraq's western Anbar desert on Monday, U.S. Air Force and Army teams cleared piles of metal and concrete debris from the airfield and around bunkers using bulldozers and pickup trucks.
But a source familiar with the latest intelligence told CNN that it showed vehicle mounted rockets, known as Grad trucks, and other military weaponry were moving closer to US interests, particularly the Al Asad air base in Iraq.
There is a growing belief among some Trump administration officials that Iran's missiles intentionally missed places populated by Americans when they targeted the al-Asad base and another that houses US troops in Erbil, multiple administration officials said.
By: Paul Schemm 1:22 AM: Iran claims dozens of U.S. deaths in missile strike DUBAI — Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed Wednesday that dozens of U.S. soldiers were killed in a missile attack on Al-Asad base in Iraq.
Al Asad was and remains the second-largest American base in the country; you may remember it from the Iranian missiles that just landed there in retaliation for the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the Quds Force dude.
Lagarde said in a statement that Pakistan requested IMF assistance during a meeting with Pakistani Finance Minister Asad Umar and central bank governor Tarik Bajwa on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bali.
The 2 flew out of Washington late on Christmas and traveled overnight to the Al Asad Air Base west of Baghdad ... marking the President's first trip to see U.S. troops in a combat zone since his presidency began.
For instance, Asad Raza's installation is in the room right next to Jordan's, so you can imagine experiencing Jordan's work and then entering a grove of trees with caretakers who are interacting in a one-on-one therapeutic way.
Pakistani TV anchor and columnist Nazim Zehra, who attended a background briefing by Prime Minister Imran Khan and finance minister Asad Umar on Monday, said the government was determined that militants should put down their weapons and be demobilized.
Finance Minister Asad Umer told the Financial Times last week that an agreement was likely by May but officials say there are still wide differences over issues ranging from lifting exchange rate controls to bringing down the twin deficits.
"As of today, 50 U.S. service members have been diagnosed" with traumatic brain injury, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq.
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department said on Thursday that 64 troops had sustained traumatic brain injuries after the Iranian ballistic missile strikes on Ayn Al Asad Air Base in Iraq this month, up 14 from an earlier announcement this week.
Based on Jonny Steinberg's book of the same name — a work of narrative nonfiction derived from years of interviews with the real-life Asad Abdullahi — it is the story of a boy who loses everything and then loses more.
En Siria, supervisó una operación masiva para reforzar el gobierno del presidente Bashar al Asad, cuyo propio ejército había sufrido mermas por las deserciones generalizadas y el combate encarnecido contra los rebeldes que buscaban derrocar el gobierno desde 2011.
"As of today, 50 U.S. service members have been diagnosed" with traumatic brain injury, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell said in a statement about injuries in the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Senior militant commander Asad Afridi has emerged as the favorite to become the new leader of a deadly Pakistani Taliban faction, militant sources said on Friday, days after a U.S. drone strike killed the group's chief.
"It's had a great impact," said Amir Mughal, tasked with using the app and database, known as the Constituency Management System (CMS), to elect Asad Umar, a lawmaker who won his seat in Islamabad and will be Khan's new finance minister.
Asad Ali, a 60-year-old Rohingya refugee, keeps his 23-year-old mentally ill son Foyas Noor on a chain as they beg for food and money at a market at Kutupalong camp, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Jan. 15.
On Wednesday, she accompanied her husband on a surprise Boxing Day visit to Iraq to meet with American troops stationed at Al Asad Air Base, wearing a suede mustard belted blouse and dark green pants with the boots for the occasion.
Earlier, Pence received a classified briefing at Iraq&aposs Al-Asad Air Base, from which US forces are believed to have launched the operation in Syria last month that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Mr. Trump at the time harked back to his brief visit in December to see American troops at Al-Asad base in western Iraq and suggested that United States forces there could be used to carry out surveillance on Iran.
Al ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria during an unannounced visit to Iraq, saying that many people will start seeing things on Syria the same way he does.
Asad Ayaz, the president of marketing at Walt Disney Studios, has been promoting the movie on Twitter, and tweeted both the trailer and a new poster on Wednesday, suggesting Disney could have greater influence over the marketing for the movie now.
El Times analizó un borrador del informe más reciente de las Naciones Unidas sobre el conflicto y, al compararlo con la versión publicada, encontró que fueron eliminados varios detalles del uso de armas químicas atribuido al régimen de Bashar al Asad.
El presidente Bashar al Asad, quienes ya es el ganador real de la guerra civil de Siria, está más cerca que nunca de retomar el último territorio controlado por los rebeldes, la provincia de Idlib, en el noroeste de Siria.
Trump on Wednesday touted the fact that the missile attacks resulted in no American or Iraqi deaths and left minimal damage to the Irbil and Al-Asad facilities as something "the American people should be extremely grateful and happy" for.
The Nordic NATO-member last month removed most of the 130 military personnel it had stationed at the Al-Asad base due to security concerns in the wake of an Iranian missile attack on the air base on Jan 8.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will send its military personnel back to the Iraqi al-Asad base on March 1, after last month temporarily moving some of them to Kuwait due to security concerns, the Danish Defence Minister Trine Bramsen said on Monday.
Al Asad base in Iraq's Anbar Province was the focus of numerous vague threat reports, including one warning that hundreds of fighters from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia trained and equipped by Iran, might launch a frontal assault on the base.
The images paint a picture of precision: The first satellite imagery of the aftermath of the Iranian strike on Ayn al-Asad Air Base in Iraq highlights Iran&aposs improved ability to accurately strike distant targets with its extensive missile arsenal.
Hoffman's disclosure that 34 had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, was the first update on the number injured in Iran's missile attack on Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq since the Pentagon said on Jan.
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None of this seemed to faze the president much, who posted a video on Thursday of himself and first lady Melania Trump smiling and shaking hands with troops at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, underscored with patriotic music.
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Reports of an attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base which hosts U.S. forces in the western Anbar province are false, a security source inside the base and a local official at a nearby town said.
Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein, who was visiting Iraq on Sunday, told a small group of U.S. airmen at al Asad Air Base that Iraq's steady progress in the war against Islamic State was a reason to be hopeful.
"We believe that recent price reductions for both Uber and Lyft may be indicative of investor hesitance to invest in highly capital-intensive, deeply unprofitable and untested business models at this late stage of the economic cycle," PitchBook analyst Asad Hussain said.
LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring Pakistan's sovereign debt against default fell 13 basis points on Tuesday after the country's finance minister Asad Umar said on Monday the government would seek to open talks with the International Monetary Fund this week.
Mapping ISIS attacks around the world Separately, ISIS said a British suicide bomber named Abu Musa al-Britani detonated his car bomb as an Iraqi military convoy was leaving the al-Asad base, killing 30 Iraqi forces and destroying 11 military vehicles.
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The discussion occurred inside a tan tent at the al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad and included the US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman, Lieutenant General Paul LaCamera, national security adviser John Bolton, and the first lady Melania Trump, along with other officials.
A few hours after Meloy spotted the plane through his Canon 7D from around 25 miles away, "Reach 358" secretly landed at Al Asad Airbase just west of Baghdad before the President and first lady met with troops for nearly three hours.
" This dovetails with comments he made the day after Christmas to troops at al-Asad base in Iraq — that the United States will not be nation-building in Syria, but its forces will "always watch very closely over any potential reformation of ISIS.
"The government has taken important steps in implementing key policy and institutional reforms that are laying down the foundations for accelerated job creation and inclusive growth," said Dr. Asad Alam, World Bank Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti in the statement.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf was handed a five-year ban by the Board Of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) on Friday over his involvement in an illegal betting scandal that blighted the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) season.
"Mr Asad Rauf has been banned for a period of five years from umpiring or playing or representing cricket in any form or anyway being associated with the activities of the Board and its Affiliates," the BCCI said in a statement on Friday.
As the world waited to see how President Donald Trump would respond to the Iranian missile strikes on al-Asad airbase in Iraq, one of his favorite television hosts cheered on potential reprisals, including retaliation aimed at creating "major poverty" for Iranians.
Cuando las fuerzas de Asad recapturaron la ciudad de origen de los Leila, el suburbio de Ghouta del Este en Damasco, hace dos años, la familia aceptó la oferta del gobierno de pasar de manera segura a Idlib en vez de enfrentar represalias.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain al-Asad air base that houses U.S.-led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil, causing no casualties.
Prior to Iran&aposs barrage of 15 missiles, four of which failed to hit their targets in al-Asad airbase and Erbil, US defense officials had been notified of a pending attack "hours" in advance, according to CBS News correspondent David Martin.
Futures on the S&P 500 dropped about 1 percent and oil prices jumped in light of the news that Iran fired over a dozen ballistic missiles against against U.S. military and coalition forces at the al-Asad air base and in Irbil.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill U.S. personnel at Iraq's al-Asad airbase, the top U.S. military officer said, in remarks that suggested that Tehran was, and perhaps still is, willing to risk major U.S. retaliation.
An Associated Press crew touring the Ain al-Asad base Monday saw large craters in the ground and damaged military trailers as well as forklifts lifting rubble and loading it onto trucks from a large area the size of a football stadium.
The Ain al-Asad air base was first used by American forces after the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, and later saw American troops stationed there amid the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
Tellingly, there are also heartfelt messages from the local Methodist Church, a "Christian brother" and a "Jewish couple", for Asad Shah was a Muslim, a member of the Ahmadiya sect, and a man who by all accounts believed firmly in embracing people of all faiths.
The December discussion occurred inside a tan tent at the al-Asad airbase west of Baghdad and included the US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman, Lieutenant General Paul LaCamera, national security adviser John Bolton, and the first lady Melania Trump, along with other officials.
Having written about Lam for the first time in 1988, I was naturally interested in the new exhibition, Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking, at the Americas Society (October 9, 2018–January 12, 2019), curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza.
"The best thing is to try to get people close to work from Day 1, because there's a long waiting period from the beginning that's wasted time," said Jihad Asad, an energetic entrepreneur from Syria who is a co-director at the Refugee Company.
The international community's refusal to confront Iran for its actions enabled the survival of Bashar al-Asad, the employer of chemical weapons and barrel bombs against civilian targets, worsened regional conflicts, laid the groundwork for sectarian strife, and contributed to the suffering of millions.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump was reeling from sharp rebukes at home and abroad over his surprise announcement last month to immediately pull American troops out of Syria when he flew into the al Asad airbase in neighboring Iraq the day after Christmas.
" But Urban said Thursday that "in the days following" the strike, "out of an abundance of caution," eight troops were transported from the Al-Asad air base to a medical center in Germany, and another three were moved to Kuwait "for follow-on screening.
That land is America, and that boy is Asad Abdullahi, the subject of the spirited, wrenching and often sublime music drama "A Man of Good Hope," created by the South African Isango Ensemble and London's Young Vic and presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Pence, accompanied by his chief of staff, Marc Short; his national security adviser, Keith Kellogg and second lady Karen Pence; departed from Joint Base Andrews on Friday for the 15-hour trip to al-Asad Air Base in Anbar province, according to pool reports.
A total of 64 US military personnel have now been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the wake of the January 8 Iranian missile attack on the al Asad military base in Iraq, according to two US officials with knowledge of the latest information.
CAIRO - (Reuters) - Sirens were heard and American helicopters were seen flying over Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base in Anbar province on Wednesday, according to al Mayadeen TV. Also, total alert state was activated after the base was hit by rockets at least twice.
BAGHDAD, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Iraq's military said on Wednesday that 22 missiles were launched on the Ain al-Asad air base that houses U.S.-led coalition troops in the western Anbar province and a base in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil, causing no casualties.
"The Refugee Camp She Once Called Home," a 2016 essay from the Lives column, by Asad Hussein When my sister, Maryan, came to Kenya to visit us in the Dadaab refugee camp last spring, it had been 11 years since we had seen her.
AIN AL-ASAD BASE, Iraq (AP) — US troops cleared rubble and debris from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq on Monday, days after it was struck by a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles in a major escalation between the two longtime foes.
Washington (CNN)Sixty-four US military personnel have now been diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury in the wake of the January 8 Iranian missile attack on the al Asad military base in Iraq, according to two US officials with knowledge of the latest information.
Asad Umer, former CEO of Pakistani multinational Engro, was appointed to the post of finance minister, party vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi to head the foreign office and former chief minister of the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Pervez Khattak was given charge of the defense ministry.
Asad Hussain, emerging technology analyst at PitchBook, said companies like Uber have reached a critical point of inflection where they need to go to market now, and a choppy economic environment doesn't affect that decision as public markets represent the best way for them to achieve liquidity.
Q Link Wireless, a prepaid brand and the third-largest provider of federally assisted wireless plans, is putting together a package to bid for Boost with private equity backing and could pay between $1.8 billion to $3 billion, founder and Chief Executive Issa Asad told Reuters.
AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of American troops from neighboring Syria.
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Fifteen to 20 people were in the Islamic center at the time of the blast for morning prayers, according to the AP. Asad Zaman, director of the Society, told CBS that a $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspected arsonist.
The mission of Khalil's group, which speedily announced support for Khan's PTI after meeting one of its top leaders,Asad Umar, includes putting an "end [to] secularist, obscene and risqué culture on media" and giving "support to fighters" that are safeguarding the respect of the Holy Prophet.
AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of American troops from neighboring Syria.
S. Staff Sergeant By John Davison AIN AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Troops at the Iraqi air base that bore the brunt of Iran's first direct missile attack against U.S. forces said they were shocked by its intensity and grateful to emerge unscathed.
"In the days following the attack, out of an abundance of caution, some service members were transported from Al Asad Air Base, Iraq to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, others were sent to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, for follow-on screening," according to a Pentagon statement.
The cabinet shakeup, which comes eight months after Khan took office, included the replacement of Finance Minister Asad Umar, who has been a close ally to Khan for many years, with Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in a renamed role to steer the country out of worsening economic turmoil.
Mr. Pence made two stops: He landed with the permission of the Iraqi government at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq's western desert, where many of the American troops are billeted while they train and assist the Iraqi forces fighting the remains of the Islamic State.
Other outdated photos are still on Twitter, like this one which purportedly shows the Al Asad Air Base in flames after being hit: The picture is actually from Gaza, and it shows an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on November 15, 2019.
In 2017, after going all the way to the Supreme Court, Triple Canopy paid $2.6 million in settlement money to the federal government over allegations that the contractor sent guards who couldn't pass a basic weapons qualification test to protect Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
The researcher, Sher Afghan Asad, a graduate student at Iowa State University, explained that some participants were paid more or less than me, while others were paid nothing but told that their typing would cause another person who was identifiably black or white to be paid.
Senior American officers recently visited several Iraqi bases, including Erbil and Al Asad Air Base as well as smaller ones closer to the Syrian border, to determine if existing American operations there could be expanded with troops shifting in from Syria, two United States officials said.
" A statement from Mark Lancaster, the government's Minister for the Armed Forces, said: "It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence confirms the death of Capt Dean Sprouting of the Adjutant General's Corps, who died earlier this week at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.
Accompanied by first lady Melania Trump and National Security Adviser John Bolton, the president made the unannounced trip Wednesday to the Ain al-Asad Air Base, near the Iraqi capital, to thank military members for their service, the White House said — a move criticized by parliamentary groups in Baghdad.
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"By denying me the visa, they saved me from the wrath of our hawks at home," Asad Durrani, a retired lieutenant general who led Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, in the early 1990s, said in videotaped remarks sent to the audience in New Delhi from Pakistan.
The US forces stationed at the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq were on high alert already after the Soleimani strike, but roughly two to three hours before the missiles hit that officials reportedly received an alert to expect an unprecedented attack on the base from Iran.
While the Pentagon has yet to give an official assessment of the damage caused by the attack, a U.S. military official and a senior administration official told CNN that the initial assessment is that the Iranian missiles hit areas of the al-Asad base not populated by Americans.
Last week the U.S. military said 11 U.S. troops had been treated and transferred out of Iraq for concussion symptoms after the attack on the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq and this week said additional troops had been moved out of Iraq for potential injuries.
According to the U.S. secretary of defense, this reprisal was composed of 16 short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) fired from three locations in Iran at two bases in Iraq, with 11 striking the Al-Asad base in the west and one striking a base in Irbil, in the north.
The initial reports were that there were no deaths or injuries to US troops, but DoD announced Friday that 11 troops at Al Asad had suffered concussive effects from the missile blasts and were evacuated to Landstuhl, Germany, as a precautionary move to check for possible traumatic brain injury.
Mr. Trump's visit to Al Asad in December provoked similar anger from Iraqi politicians, some of whom called it an arrogant affront that recalled American behavior dating back to the 2003 invasion and what followed: the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison; incidents with civilian casualties; and widespread sectarian violence.
However, retired brigadier Asad Munir, a former Inter-services Intelligence (ISI) officer who was station chief in various parts of the country between 1999 and 2004, including a posting in FATA, says that he feels that the military's own losses during counterinsurgency operations in the country's northwest should not be overlooked.
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday dismissed concussion symptoms reported by several American troops after Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq as "not very serious," even as the Pentagon acknowledged that a number of service members were being examined for possible traumatic brain injury caused by the attack.
Oil had surged above $70 a barrel, while gold held at new seven-year highs after the missile attack on the Ain Al-Asad air base and another in Erbil in Iraq, hours after the funeral of an Iranian commander who was killed by a U.S. drone strike last week.
Of the 16 Iranian short-range ballistic missiles that were fired across the border, one struck a base near the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, while 11 struck al-Asad air base in the western desert, where hundreds of U.S. and coalition troops are located, Milley told reporters at the Pentagon.
AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is prepared to wait as long as it takes to get $5 billion from taxpayers for his U.S.-Mexico border wall, a demand that has triggered a partial shutdown of the federal government that is now in its fifth day.
Al Jazeera's Asad Hashim has been reporting from rural Pakistan on allegations the military is tipping the scales: A local tribal chief and politician told Hashim the military has intimidated voters and offered incentives to switch loyalties, from installing electricity transformers to offering to release relatives allegedly "disappeared" by the intelligence services.
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The Iranian missile strikes, which began early Wednesday morning local time — late Tuesday in Washington — targeted Al Asad Air Base, long a hub for American military operations in Iraq, and another base in Erbil in northern Iraq, which has been a home for Special Operations forces in the fight against the Islamic State.
A blizzard of potential threats had already come throughout the day — of attacks with missiles and rockets, of terrorist strikes against Americans elsewhere in the Middle East, even one warning that hundreds of Iran-backed militia fighters might try to assault Al Asad Air Base, a sprawling compound in Iraq's western desert.
The Iranian missile strikes, which began early Wednesday morning local time — late Tuesday in Washington — targeted Al Asad Air Base, long a hub for American military operations in Iraq, and another base in Erbil in northern Iraq, which has been a home for Special Operations forces in the fight against the Islamic State.
Mr. Trump seemed to have stepped on a diplomatic hornet's nest inadvertently, American diplomats and military experts said, when he discussed the nature of the sprawling Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq, which he visited in late December and referred to on Sunday, and where American troops operate with Iraqi permission.

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