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Strikes ‘kill Iran-backed fighters’ after troops eliminated

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Mar 12, 2020
Strikes ‘kill Iran-backed fighters’ after troops eliminated

File photo showing Iraqi Shia fighter of the Popular Mobilisation force securing Iraq's border with Syria in Anbar province (12 November 2018) Image copyright
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A variety of Shia militias in Iraq get weapons, training and financing from Iran.

It was not clear who performed the strikes.

But it followed a rocket attack on the Taji military base in Iraq that eliminated a British soldier and 2 Americans.

No-one claimed they released the rockets, however the United States has implicated Iran-backed militias of 13 comparable attacks on Iraqi bases hosting coalition forces in the previous year.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Being Rights (SOHR) reported that three aircraft targeted Popular Mobilisation camps in the al-Hassian location and the Imam Ali military base, which is thought to have actually been developed by Iran

The UK-based tracking group stated all of those eliminated in the strikes were Iraqis, and that weapons and ammunition stores were likewise damaged.

Iraqi Shia militias and Iranian forces are based in Syria to support forces devoted to President

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