On the brink of war but iraq is the battlefield so what lies ahead for a country. With a string of problems. Irans targeting of 2 Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops has put the world on edge with fears that irans revenge attacks the u. S. Killing of its most important military leader who would escalate but its a rock thats in the firing line and it already has enough problems thousands of people across iraq have borne seem solemn ali and an Iraqi Militia commander killed in a u. S. Drone on tack on friday iraqis she apartment ariens have foreign troops to leave iraq a call the u. S. Has rebuffed but iraqs politicians are still under pressure at home as demonstrators continue their push for Major Political and economic reform for more were joined from the northern iraqi city of erbil by he were awesome and hes a journalist and analyst also on the phone in baghdad we have ayman he has been part of the protests seeking government reform since october and we are discussing his ident
Died in a stampede at a funeral for cost them money in iraq. And we go on air with a developing story coming to us out of iraq a number of missiles we understand have been fired at multiple u. S. Facilities in iraq including the. Base which houses u. S. Forces irans state t. V. Is saying that tehran launched quotes tens of surface to surface missiles the white house says President Trump is being briefed and he is monitoring the situation the base there you can see it on our map its about equidistant between the iraqi capital baghdad and the border with syria our correspondent there was Osama Bin Laden joins us on the line from baghdad clearly its a way a ways from baghdad osama so maybe details a bit sketchy as of yet what do we know. So far weve spoken to multiple sources in iraq the Security Services at least one come on there from the hashish are the proper Mobilization Forces to confirm that a good team if i have landed. Landed in the. Base not just the coalition of them. We are ge
So in the dark without light so that theyre not easy targets there was a time when planes would would come to the major bases in iraq that they would do socalled corkscrew landings so that they would minimize their exposure on the way down but this is precisely the kind of provocation the pentagon was expecting maybe a little bolder in scale than they had expected previously but it is exactly the kind of thing that the president that the defense secretary and that the secretary of state here in the United States have been warning against the question now is what will they do to retaliate we know the white house is monitoring these events they have been briefed the pentagon had apparently closed early for snow but there are now people there meeting in secure areas presumably talking about what the response would be of course the u. S. Central command will be on this they have confirmed that these rocket attacks have happened as well so youll have people in the region talking to people h
That the strike he ordered, quote, saved a lot of lives. As the president and his administration is now pressed, where is the evidence they spoke of before of an imminent attack . Jon karl is standing by live at the white house. And all of this playing out tonight at those two bases in iraq housing the u. S. Military. Just hours before it all happened, iraqs Prime Minister signaling he wanted u. S. Troops out. Pointing to a letter from the u. S. Military in the last 24 hours, saying the u. S. Was, in fact, leaving iraq. Tonight, President Trump saying that is not the case, the pentagon saying the letter was a mistake. Team coverage of the crisis with iran, a special edition of world news tonight begins now. Good evening as we come on the air in the west tonight with breaking news in the escalating crisis with iran. Tonight, u. S. Officials confirming iran has fired more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles targeting the u. S. Military. The missiles fired from inside iran, aimed at u. S. Mil
Rooney in as he left the baghdad airport. This is a tweet from the state news agency that shows a missile leaving a launchpad, the eye iranians say one of the targets was the all asad military base which houses military troops. What happens now is a question on everyones mind . Is this attack over and how will the u. S. Respond . Benjamin hall is live in amman jordan with the latest. Benjamin. Good evening kennedy and for five days now since that it that killed Qassem Soleimani we have been waiting to see how iran would retaliate for his death. And theyve been talking about ever since then. They have said very clearly that politically and militarily they will respond they will attack the u. S. Military. A number of them had also said that they wanted to shed american blood. These early reports do suggest that no americans have been killed today and that is a critical. Because President Trump always said that the red line would be the death of american soldiers. We saw that when he reac