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A series of large explosions rocked early on April 20 the Kalso military base which is located in the Babylon province about 50 kilometers to the south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and used by both the Iraqi military and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
In a statement, the PMF said that an “explosion” had inflicted “material losses” and casualties, without specifying the number of wounded. It added that its premises on the military base had been hit and that investigators had been sent to the site.
The PMF was formed by Iranian-backed armed factions in Iraq to fight ISIS in 2014. Four years later, the Iraqi government fully reorganized the group.
An official of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior told AFP that an “aerial bombing” on the base had killed one person and wounded eight others, while a military source reported three Iraqi service members had been wounded in a strike
Responding to questions from AFP, the sources would not identify who was responsible, or say whether it had been a drone strike.
Shortly after the attack, the United States Central Command said that its forces were not behind the reported attack on Iraq.
“The U.S. has not conducted airstrikes in Iraq today,” the command posted on social media platform X, adding that reports that American forces had carried out a strike were “not true.”
Later, the Sabreen news channel on Telegram, which has ties to the PMF, reported, citing an Iraqi security source, that the Kalso military base was hit by Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli military has not confirmed or denied this.
These accusations were repeated by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), which announced that it had carried out a drone attack against the southernmost Israeli city of Eilat in response to the airstrikes on the Iraqi base as well as in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Hebrew media didn’t report any incident at the city.
The IRI is also an umbrella group made up of armed factions which are backed by Iran. Some of the PMF’s key factions, like Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba and Kata’ib Hezbollah, are thought to be also members of the IRI.
The group began launching attacks against Israel as well as against U.S. forces in Iraq and neighboring Syria on October 17 in response to the Israeli war on Gaza -which broke out just ten days earlier- and Washington’s unwavering support for it.
The group suspended attacks against U.S. forces last February after the death of three American troops in a drone strike on a base in Jordan, reportedly upon a request from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Nevertheless, it escalated attacks against Israel starting from March. This may be the motive behind the Israeli attack on Iraq.
The suspected Israeli airstrikes on the Kalso military base came just a day after strikes also attributed to Israel hit the Iranian city of Isfahan.
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theres isis air support again. how many hundreds or thousands of strikes is it now in direct support of isis? they will cause war all over before humans get rid of them once and for all. best to prepare. create weapons factories. small and large. asia, middle east, europe, america, africa. even a 1 man operation can create enough light and heavy weapons to support a section to a platoon depending on skill.
sandals in desert wont make you a winner.