It is a joint base that houses the military and police headquarters, as well as the Popular Multitude militias, in Babel Governorate, about 80 kilometers southeast of the Iraqi capital. The facts are being investigated and the US denies its involvement.
The Iraqi authorities stated this on Saturday one person died and eight others were injured in a eruption, probably caused by an air raid, in a military base of the influential Shia group pro-Iranian crowdwith the presence of the army of the Arab country.
The Security Cell, spokesperson for the Iraqi military and police, explained in a statement that the “explosion, which caused several fires, occurred at 1 a.m. local time (11 a.m. GMT) on Saturday at the Kalsu base and resulted in the death of a member of the Popular Crowd and injured eight people, including an army soldier.”
He pointed out that this is so a common basis in which the headquarters of the Army and the Police, just like the Popular Crowd militiasin Babel Governorate, about 80 kilometers southeast of the Iraqi capital.
The official note neither confirms nor denies the statements of Iraqi security sources who assured last morning that it was an attack “by unknown aircraft”, and emphasizes that “a specialized higher technical committee (…) has been established to determine the causes of the attack set. the explosion and fires” at the base.
For its part, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported early Saturday morning in a statement in X that its air force “Did not carry out airstrikes in Iraq today” and has described Iraqi media reports of an alleged US attack as “not true”.
The militias Popular crowdde facto integrated into the Iraqi armed forces, They bring together various pro-Iranian Shia formations that numerous drone and projectile attacks have been attributed in recent months against Israel and bases with a US presence in Iraq and Syria.
The US, in turn, has attacked positions and perceived leaders of movements such as Al Nujba and Kataib Hezbollah, which are part of the Multitude, in recent months.
Both groups, which Washington considers terrorists, are also part of the amalgamation of pro-Iranian militias, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which has carried out more than 160 attacks on Washington positions in Iraqi and Syrian territory since the start of the last Israeli offensive on Gaza on Gaza. the 7th of October.
Iraq, whose government is a US ally but does not recognize the state of Israel, has on several occasions criticized US attacks on its territory, saying they “damage its sovereignty”.
Baghdad also began negotiations with the United States to set a schedule for the departure of foreign troops from the Arab country, ending the international coalition’s mission against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group after a decade of operations.
Source: EITB
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