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President Donald Trump initially said that no troops were injured in the Ain al-Asad base strike. (AP pic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON:\u00a0Nearly three dozen US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries or concussion in this month’s Iranian airstrike on a military base in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Thirty-four total members have been diagnosed with concussions and TBI (traumatic brain injury),” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump had initially said that no Americans were injured in the strike on the Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq on the night of Jan 7-8 although authorities later reported that 11 troops were injured.<\/p>\n

Hoffman said that 17 of the victims had been initially transferred to Germany to receive treatment, eight of whom arrived back in the US on Friday.<\/p>\n

“They will continue to receive treatment in the United States, either at Walter Reed (military hospital near Washington) or at their home bases,” he told a press conference at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

The nine other victims who were flown to Germany “are still undergoing evaluation and treatment there”, he added.<\/p>\n

Seventeen other troops who were treated in the region have returned to duty in Iraq.<\/p>\n

The airbase\u00a0\u2013 one of the largest in Iraq, with 1,500 US troops making up the bulk of a coalition presence directly adjacent to thousands of Iraqi forces \u2013 was targeted in retaliation for the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in a Jan 3 drone strike in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers seized on the announcement to accuse Trump of lying about the strike.<\/p>\n

“Though he downplays these injuries as ‘headaches’, roughly half of all TBIs require surgery and can lead to lifelong disabilities,” said congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed, the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, called TBI “a serious matter”.<\/p>\n

“It is not a ‘headache,’ and it’s plain wrong for President Trump to diminish their wounds. … He owes them an apology,” Reed said.<\/p>\n

At a rally in New Hampshire, Joe Biden, a frontrunner to challenge Trump in this year’s election, said the president “brushed off” the troops’ injuries.<\/p>\n

“I find it, quite frankly, disgusting,” Biden, a former vice president, said.<\/p>\n

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