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An aerial onslaught deed a subject basal successful confederate Iraq lodging the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah radical connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026), 2 sources from the equipped faction said.
The Jurf al-Nasr base, which serves arsenic 1 of the main bastions of the almighty Tehran-backed group, has been struck respective times since the warfare successful the West Asia broke out, starting successful the aboriginal hours of the U.S.-Israeli run against Iran.
The strikes person since expanded to different areas, and much than 10 fighters, mostly from Kataeb Hezbollah, person been killed crossed Iraq since Saturday.
A 2nd root from the radical said Tuesday's onslaught lone caused worldly damage.
Iraq, which precocious regained a consciousness of stableness but has agelong been a proxy battleground betwixt the U.S. and Iran, said it did not privation to beryllium dragged into the war. But it has not been spared.
Several Iran-backed equipped groups -- known arsenic the Islamic Resistance successful Iraq, to which Kataeb Hezbollah besides belongs -- person said they volition not enactment "neutral" and person claimed dozens of drone attacks connected U.S. bases.
A drone was changeable down connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) evening adjacent Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi government's information media compartment said.
Hours earlier, information forces announced that they seized 9 rockets and a launchpad that were acceptable up to people the airport, which includes a subject basal that hosts American advisers and antecedently housed U.S.-led conjugation troops.
Since the warfare started, the autonomous Kurdistan region, which hosts U.S. troops, has been the main people of drone attacks, the bulk of which were intercepted by aerial defences.
An AFP analogous reported that a onslaught connected Tuesday (March 3, 2026) nighttime deed Kurdistan's Sulaimaniyah, the second-largest metropolis successful the autonomous region.
Kurdish information forces said that a drone struck an country adjacent a gathering that antecedently served arsenic a United Nations bureau successful the city, with nary casualties reported.
Loud bangs were again heard successful Erbil, the superior of the Kurdistan region, AFP journalists reported.
Earlier successful the day, drone strikes blamed connected Iran deed a campy hosting Iranian Kurdish fighters and household members successful Iraqi Kurdistan, a section authoritative and an exiled absorption radical told AFP.
AFP photographers astatine the country reported harm to rooms utilized arsenic lodgings for the camp's infirmary staff.
Iraq's Kurdish portion hosts camps and rear-bases operated by respective Iranian Kurdish rebel groups that person repeatedly faced cross-border strikes from Iran, which has agelong accused them of serving Western oregon Israeli interests.
