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2026 United States-led conflict with pro-Iranian Iraqi militias
Following the outbreak of the 2026 Iran war on 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel conducted airstrikes targeting several Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias under the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI) and Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) umbrellas in Iraq. At least several dozen Iraqi militiamen have been reported dead so far from attacks on militia headquarters, checkpoints, ammunition dumps, and private residences of senior commanders. PMF and IRI militias retaliated by lobbying rockets and drones at U.S. and Kurdish bases. According to reporting from Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait had also conducted airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. On 7 April, the Iraqi government reported that the U.S. conducted 138 attacks in Iraq, resulting in the deaths of 73 PMF members, ten Iraqi army soldiers, three Iraqi Federal Police officers, and six civilians. Among those killed by the airstrikes was General Saad Dawai, the commander of the Iraqi Armed...
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