A strike on Monday near Iraq’s western border with Syria killed at least four fighters from a former coalition, two security officials said.<\/p>\n
The fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), now part of Iraq’s regular army — “were killed and three others were wounded” in the late afternoon attack on a checkpoint at the entrance to the city of al-Qaim, a local security official said, AFP reported. <\/p>\n
An official with the PMF, which includes pro-Iranian groups, put the toll higher, at six dead, blaming the United States for the strike.<\/p>\n
He said the checkpoint, which also housed army and police personnel, was targeted again when ambulances arrived to help victims.<\/p>\n
Iraq has recently regained a sense of stability following years of conflict, and was unwillingly drawn into the current Middle East war after having long been a proxy battleground between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the Middle East war on February 28, bases belonging to PMF have been hit several times, with strikes mostly targeting Tehran-backed armed groups.<\/p>\n
These groups are also united under a loose alliance called the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has claimed attacks against US bases in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A strike on Monday near Iraq’s western border with Syria killed at least four fighters from a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[95],"class_list":{"0":"post-21914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-syria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116239569016563164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}