[Regnum] The death toll among members of the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militia has risen to eight as a result of an airstrike near the Iraqi-Syrian border. The Iraqi Armed Forces press service reported this on March 16.
It was reported that positions of the 18th militia brigade near the city of Al-Qaim in the Iraqi border province of Anbar were attacked from the air. At least seven people were wounded. Brigade headquarters also noted that a medical unit serving with the militia was hit by the airstrike.
The command's statement noted that the attack on regular Iraqi troops is viewed by the country's authorities as an encroachment on the state's sovereignty.
The Hashd al-Shaabi militia is officially part of the Iraqi army and reports directly to the country's prime minister. However, from the US perspective, it is a pro-Iranian structure allegedly financed by the authorities in Tehran.
PMF says Israeli strike kills six members at Iraq-Syria border checkpoint
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Monday that one of its positions at a checkpoint on the Iraq-Syria border in western Anbar province was hit by an Israeli strike, killing six fighters and injuring four others.
The PMF said its position at the Martyr Haider checkpoint in Anbar province’s al-Qaim district was hit by a "Zionist attack," resulting in the killing of six of its fighters and the injury of four others.
Some PMF factions have carried out drone and missile attacks on US diplomatic missions and military bases in Iraq in support of Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
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in its ongoing war with the United States and Israel. In response, several PMF bases - part of a force that was once a paramilitary group but is now integrated into the Iraqi state forces - have been targeted, resulting in dozens of casualties. Some of these strikes have been blamed on the US, though neither Washington nor Tel Aviv has grabbed credit.
"The bombing was by warplane and directly targeted the Popular Mobilization Forces security room at the checkpoint," at 3:30 pm, Abdullah al-Jughaifi, advisor to the security and defense committee of Anbar’s provincial council, told Rudaw.
Jughaifi said that in the same attack, a member of Anbar’s emergency police force affiliated with the Iraqi interior ministry who was at the checkpoint was maimed, along with two civilians.
More than two dozen fighters from the PMF were killed in suspected US strikes on their bases in Anbar and central Kirkuk province on Thursday.
Kataib Hezbollah in late February called on its fighters to prepare for what it described as a potential "war of attrition that may be long-term, exceeding the estimates of the US administration."
Kataib Hezbollah has said that the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
during Israeli strikes at the onset of the war had made undermining the security of US assets and expelling them from the region a top priority for Iran-aligned Iraqi gangs.
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