An airbase housing US troops in Iraq has been hit by rockets, according to the US Department of Defence.
Iranian state TV says the attack is a retaliation after the country's top commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a drone strike in Baghdad on Friday, on the orders of US President Donald Trump.
The Al-Asad base has been hit by multiple rockets.
The White House is monitoring the attack.
It is unclear if there have been any casualties.
"We are aware of the reports of attacks on US facilities in Iraq. The president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement.
When he authorized the attack that killed Gen. Qasem Soleiman Donald Trump was thinking that it would show the world that he was, indeed a tough guy. He truly believed that Iran would cower in a corner to frightened to launch a retaliatory strike against American military assets. He was wrong. Donald Trump no student of history is, by ratcheting tensions with Iran is confirming to its citizens at large that America will never respect its sovereign rights. America created the Iran of today by allowing the CIA to overthrow the only democratically elected government the country has ever know and replaced it with an repressive authoritarian government led by the Shah of Iran.
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