{"id":35783,"date":"2026-03-25T16:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:41:07","slug":"iraq-summons-us-diplomat-over-deadly-attack-on-military-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/35783\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq summons US diplomat over deadly attack on military clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Airstrikes on a military base in western Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of seven fighters and left 13 others wounded, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>The attack targeted the military healthcare clinic at the base in Habbaniyah, according to Iraq&#8217;s defense ministry. It called the attack \u201ca heinous crime\u201d that violated \u201call international laws and norms\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/saudigazette.com.sa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aries_aspectRatio\" title=\"2026\/03\/656674531-1370519378436691-1483491352700461877-n-1774452530.webp + Iraq summons US diplomat over deadly attack on military clinic\" alt=\"News about - Iraq summons US diplomat over deadly attack on military clinic\"\/>An Iraqi police source said the attack targeted positions of the Iraqi military\u2019s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a paramilitary force that includes some Iran-aligned brigades and reportedly shares the base with members of Iraq\u2019s regular army.<\/p>\n<p>\u2060Iraqi \u2060Prime Minister Mohammed \u2060Shia al-Sudani \u2060instructed the foreign ministry \u200cto summon the US charge d\u2019affaires in \u2060Baghdad over attacks \u2060that targeted \u2060its \u201cmilitary units\u201d, \u2060the \u2060prime minister\u2019s office said \u200con Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Iraqi prime minister said <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/explosions-hit-baghdad-us-base-reportedly-targeted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baghdad<\/a> would summon the Iranian and US ambassadors over the recent strikes. Iraq has denounced the attacks as the country has been dragged into the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A security official quoted by the AFP news agency said the strike occurred at the same base that suffered a deadly attack the day before.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s strike, which the PMF blamed on the US, was the deadliest in Iraq since the start of the war on Iran on February 28, It killed 15 fighters, including a commander.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/ulviyya-salmanli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Ulviyya Salmanli<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airstrikes on a military base in western Iraq&#8217;s Anbar province on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16035,94,16034,16033],"class_list":{"0":"post-35783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-deadly-attack","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-military-cinic","11":"tag-us-envoy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783","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=35783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}