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The base was originally named Qadisiyah Airbase (قاعدة القادسية الجوية), a reference to the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah (c. 636). Qadisiyah AB was one of five new air bases built in Iraq as part of their Project "Super-Base", launched in 1975 as a response to the lessons learned during the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973.
The United States military attempted to defend the base with Patriot missiles. More than 15 MIM-104 Patriot missiles were launched to defend the base. [49] On August 5, 2024, a missile attack targeted the Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, resulting in injuries to at least five US servicemembers and two contractors. [50]
Kirkuk Air Base Camp: Ridgeway (Al Taqaddum) Camp: Ripper (Al Asad) Al Anbar: Camp: Roach Camp Hadithah: Haditha: Al Anbar: Camp: Rustamiyah also known as Camp Cuervo: Rasheed Air Base Camp: Sather: Baghdad: April 2003: December 2011: Baghdad International Air Base Camp: Scania (Nippur) Hashimiya: Babil: March 2003: July 15, 2010: Transferred ...
Ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has made his first comments since his regime was defeated by rebels in a lightning-quick military advance.. Just over a week since he was removed from power ...
A U.S. defense official, who wasn't authorized to comment to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed the attack on the al-Asad military base in western Iraq. Tashkil al-Waritheen ...
The same day, four others were hurt at the al-Asad base in Iraq. ... Twenty troops were injured on an Oct. 18 attack when at least two drones targeted the al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, ...
On 8 January 2020, in a military operation code named Operation Martyr Soleimani (Persian: عملیات شهید سلیمانی), [5] Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched over 12 ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Al Anbar Governorate, western Iraq, as well as another airbase in Erbil, in response to the assassination of Major General Qasem Soleimani by a United ...
(Reuters) -Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad is in Moscow with his family after Russia granted them asylum on humanitarian grounds, a Kremlin source told Russian news agencies on Sunday ...