Iraq investigates a blast at a base of Iran
Release time：2024-05-21 16:29:26 Source：Culture Channels news portal
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they were investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, killing one person and injuring eight.
Militia officials had initially described the explosion at the Kalsu military base north of Babylon — a former U.S. base that was handed over to the Iraqi military in 2011 — as an airstrike, blaming it on U.S. forces. The U.S. Central Command denied in a statement that it had carried out any airstrikes in Iraq.
The PMF in a statement Saturday afternoon described the blast as an “attack” but did not blame any specific party.
Iraq’s Security Media Cell said the country’s air defense command had not detected any drones or fighter plane in the airspace of Babylon before or during the explosion. It said one PMF member died and eight people were injured, including an Iraqi army soldier.
Related articles
- Cruise worker 'murders newborn son on board ship': Shocked co
- More than 100 killed while seeking aid in Gaza, overall death toll passes 30,000
- New advisory groups for science and tertiary sectors
- US to impose sanctions on over 500 targets in Russia action
- US overdose deaths dropped in 2023, the first time since 2018
- Immigration declines nearly half of study visa applications from India so far this year
- Politics updates: Government defends transport plan, Luxon has to fly commercial
- Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden's emergency services levy briefings kept secret
- The government wants to buy their flood
- 'Penalty on a plug'
- Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI
- Israel hits Gaza's Rafah; Hamas chief's trip raises truce hopes
- EDITORIAL: Sex offender checks must protect children, human rights
- Zelensky counts on more Western defence aid for Ukraine in next two months
- Nadal returns to Roland Garros to practice amid doubts over fitness and form
- Israel hits Gaza's Rafah; Hamas chief's trip raises truce hopes
- US approves plan to strike Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq, officials say
- EDITORIAL: Hong Kong’s security ordinance will strangle city’s society, economy
- The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
- 'Penalty on a plug'
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by Iraq investigates a blast at a base of Iran ,Culture Channels news portal sitemap