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Iraq |
8 killed in US strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq |
2023-11-23 |
[An Nahar] The United States military said Wednesday that it had carried out strikes against Iran-backed groups in Iraq that have launched attacks on U.S. forces. Two officials with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq said the strikes hit three locations in the area of Jurf al-Sakhar south of Baghdad, killing eight members of the Kataeb Hezbollah bully boy group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Iranian-backed gunnies have launched dozens of attacks on bases and facilities housing U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17. While most of the more than five dozen attacks have been ineffective, at least 60 U.S. personnel have reported minor injuries. The bully boy groups have said that the strikes are in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel in the ongoing Israel-Hamas ![]() war. The U.S. Central Command said in a statement Wednesday that its forces had "conducted discrete, precision strikes against two facilities in Iraq ... in direct response to the attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces by 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 militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate and Iran-backed groups," including one on Tuesday involving the use of close-range ballistic missiles. Related: Iraq: 2023-11-21 Good Morning Iraq: 2023-11-21 Iraq's Islamic Resistance attack a U.S. base in Syria; 62th since Oct. 17 Iraq: 2023-11-21 Ain al-Assad air base targeted by drone strike in Iraq Related: Jurf al-Sakhar: 2023-04-09 Babel Residents Protest Against ''Return of Terrorism'' to Jurf Al-Sakhar Jurf al-Sakhar: 2022-12-07 Suspected ISIS suicide bomber kills 2 PMF fighters in Babil Jurf al-Sakhar: 2022-11-25 A leader of Saraya Al-Salam was killed in Maysan, another injured Related: Kataeb Hezbollah: 2023-07-30 Why Iraq thinks a plot is fanning the flames of its diplomatic crises Kataeb Hezbollah: 2023-07-17 Israeli abducted in Iraq said to have initiated contact with her kidnappers Kataeb Hezbollah: 2023-07-10 Report: Tehran set up Russian-Israeli’s abduction in Iraq to secure Iranian’s release |
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