US troops clean up damage from Iran missile attack

US troops were clearing rubble and debris on Monday from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq on Monday, days after it was struck by Iranian missiles.

The Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq's western Anbar province is a sprawling complex about 110 miles west of Baghdad and houses about 1,500 members of the US military and the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militant group.

It was struck by a barrage of Iranian missiles on Wednesday, in retaliation for the US drone strike that killed atop Iranian commander, General Qassem Soleimani, whose killing raised fears of a wider war in the Middle East.

An Associated Press crew visiting the Ain al-Asad base in the western Anbar desert of Iraq saw large craters in the ground and forklifts lifting rubble and loading it onto trucks.

The US said no US soldiers were killed in the Iranian attack.