At least 20 fighters of Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces – PMF) were martyred and 32 others injured in a wave of joint attacks carried by Saudi Arabia and the United States, the Iraqi resistance group announced on Wednesday.
In a statement, the PMF said the strikes hit official headquarters in Baghdad, Wasit, Nineveh, Basra, Kirkuk, Karbala, and Diyala, causing extensive material damage to facilities, vehicles, and military equipment.
The Iraqi resistance group stressed that “the toll of martyrs and wounded is preliminary,” noting that specialized committees are continuing field assessments to document losses and verify details.
“The announced figures remain subject to increase or update as auditing operations and field reports are completed,” the statement read.
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The PMF vowed to pursue a full accounting of the attacks and their consequences, framing the strikes as part of a broader pattern of aggression targeting its forces and infrastructure.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Hashd announced its sites in various parts of Iraq “were subjected to treacherous terrorist attacks launched by US and Saudi forces.”
In a separate statement, it stressed that the attacks are “highly dangerous escalation, violation of Iraqi sovereignty, and attack on its official security institutions.”
For its part, the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said that US and Saudi forces carried out “joint precision strikes” in Iraq.
“US Central Command and the Saudi Arabian Armed Forces conducted precision strikes in Iraq, (on) July 28, against Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure,” CENTCOM said in a statement, referring to Iraqi resistance fighters.
The aggression came, although Iraqi resistance had warned Saudi Arabia earlier this week against waging such strikes against the Iraqi territory following Riyadh’s accusations that attacks on some of its oil facilities had originated from Iraq.
In a statement released on Monday, the resistance had rejected the Saudi allegations, describing them as “baseless.”
“These baseless allegations… are nothing more than a transparent attempt by the Saudi regime to cover up its complete failure to respond to the highly effective operations carried out by Yemen’s resistance forces against the regime’s deeply buried infrastructure,” the statement said.
Source: Al-Manar English Website