US senators slam WH briefing on Soleimani: All the present day updates Lawmakers say Trump officers failed to present evidence justifying Iranian preferred's killing with out Congress' approval. The Iran-backed Iraqi defense force organization Popular Mobilisation Forces has vowed that it's going to also avenge the killing in their commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandi and Soleimani [Murtaja Lateef/Reuters] Iran has fired greater than a dozen missiles at two Iraqi army bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon confirmed. The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil early on Wednesday got here amid escalating tensions among Washington and Tehran following the USA killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iraq last week. Iran had pledged retaliatory attacks in opposition to the United States for the killing of Soleimani, who america President Donald Trump stated that plotting an 'drawing close attack' on America