American personnel in Iraq suffered minor injuries and an Iraqi security officer was wounded in the latest attack by Iraqi militias on the Ain al-Asad air base, according to reports.

The Pentagon’s Central Command said Saturday in a statement that the base had come under fire from multiple ballistic missiles and rockets launched from inside Iraq, believed to have been fired by Shiite militias with close ties to Iran.

The statement said that U.S. personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injury.

Along with other Iran-allied forces across the region, the Iraqi militias, which are loosely aligned under Iraq’s overall military, have stepped up attacks on U.S. forces stationed in Iraq in the wake of the Israeli-Hamas fighting that broke out in Gaza after Oct. 7.

The Pentagon has kept deployments in Iraq and neighboring Syria, saying they are needed to combat Islamic State fighters still operating in the region.

But the forces have become both a target and a political headache, exacerbated by the tensions generated by the Gaza war. Since the Israel-Hamas war began, the U.S. military has come under attack at least 58 times in Iraq and 83 times in Syria by Iran-backed militants, the Reuters news service reported Sunday.

Iraqi lawmakers have also stepped up a campaign to demand U.S. forces leave the country after a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 4 killed a senior militia leader in Baghdad whom U.S. officials said was responsible for planning attacks on American forces.

Saturday’s missile salvo also came after a suspected Israeli airstrike killed five senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Damascus on Friday, with Tehran vowing to avenge the attack.

The U.S. Central Command said in a Saturday statement on social media that more of the missiles had been intercepted.

“Damage assessments are ongoing,” the statement added.

• David R. Sands can be reached at dsands@washingtontimes.com.