Video shows what is believed to be Iranian missiles striking U.S. air base in Iraq.
as well as being behind roadside bombs assessed to have killed 600 American troops in Iraq.
A defense official said there was no information on possible casualties, but the U.S. is"still conducting battle damage assessments." But a senior administration official and a U.S. official told ABC News late Tuesday that there were no indications of American casualties so far. The president and congressional leadership were briefed immediately after the strikes. The defense official told reporters that Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were in the Pentagon while the attack occurred and spoke by phone to the president, vice president and national security team. They then went to the White House to brief Trump in person.
"The body of General Soleimani is being buried now. After taking revenge of his blood, now his body is being buried," according to a statement from Iran to members of the foreign press. A U.S. Marine with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command 19.2, stands post during the reinforcement of the Baghdad Embassy Compound in Iraq, Jan. 4, 2020.U.S. government officials have said that Soleimani has long been regarded as an enemy of American security interests, but that past administrations calculated that killing him was not worth the risk, including launching a potential war with Iran.
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