Airstrike in western Anbar kills 7 Iraqi soldiers, wounds 13
The airstrike on the Habbaniyah base, shared by Iraqi forces and Popular Mobilisation Forces, killed 7 and wounded 13 amid escalating US-Iran tensions in Iraq.
- On Wednesday, a suspected US airstrike struck the Habbaniyah military base in Anbar province, killing seven Iraqi security personnel and wounding 13 others, according to the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
- This incident follows a deadly strike on Tuesday at the same base that killed 15 PMF fighters, including a commander, as the US continues targeting the Iran-aligned Shia militia coalition.
- The Iraqi Defense Ministry said the strike targeted the base's military healthcare clinic, calling the attack "a heinous crime" that violated international laws; a military doctor was among those killed.
- Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani instructed his Foreign Ministry to summon the US chargé d'affaires in Baghdad over the strike, citing the government's prior grant of the "right to respond" to the PMF.
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Airstrike in western Anbar kills 7 Iraqi soldiers, wounds 13
Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded in an airstrike on a site belonging to Iraq's Shi'ite Popular Mobilization Forces near an army medical centre in western Anbar, security sources and the defence ministry said on Wednesday.
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Seven Iraqi soldiers killed in airstrike on Anbar military base
Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in an airstrike on a military base in Anbar province, Iraq's defence ministry says, describing the targeting of a medical facility as a violation of international law.
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