Airstrikes hit PMF site in Iraq’s Babil
Shafaq News- Babil (Updated at 23:21)
US drones carried out multiple strikes Tuesday on positions held by Kataib Hezbollah in Jurf Al-Sakhar (Jurf Al-Nasr), south of Baghdad, a security source told Shafaq News.
The strikes, launched around 9 pm, hit military warehouses belonging to the Iran-aligned faction, the source said. Material damage was reported, but no casualties were confirmed.
Earlier today, security officials reported two airstrikes on a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) site in the same area without attributing responsibility. A drone also crashed near Shaal village in Kirkuk’s Dibis district, with no injuries recorded. On March 2, The PMF reported four fighters killed and 11 wounded in attack an attack in Akashat area, western Iraq, while other attacks occurred in Kirkuk and Nineveh.
The escalation comes as aerial exchanges intensify between Iran on one side and Israel and the United States on the other. Several Iran-aligned Iraqi armed factions informed government officials and political leaders within the ruling Shiite Coordination Framework that they will continue operations targeting US and Israeli interests inside and outside Iraq. They claimed it had carried out 67 operations over the past 48 hours in two Iraqi provinces and four other countries, targeting the US “occupation bases” and interests in the region.
