‘No Casualties Recorded’ – US Reacts To Iran Strike

An official of the United States Pentagon has claimed that no casualties were recorded on the side of the US troops after Iran attacked its facilities base in Iraq.

Naija News reports that Iranian authorities had claimed that its missiles had killed 80 US military personnel and wounded 200 others.

Expectations of an immediate escalation in the oil-exporting region appeared to recede with the latest report.

A U.S. official stated that the Iranians deliberately aimed to miss the Americans.

This may have informed President Donald Trump’s tweet early on Wednesday: ‘So far so good, all is well”.

Naija News had earlier reported that more than a dozen missiles were fired by Iran at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops.

It was gathered that the missiles targeted the Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province and a facility near Erbil’s airport in northern Iraq very early this morning.

They were fired in retaliation for the killing of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by the US, Iran said.

Recall that Iran had threatened a retaliation attack on the US, following the death of Solemani