US, Saudi Arabia launch joint aggression against Iraq

BAGHDAD, July 29 (YPA) – The United States and Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on Iraq early Wednesday, targeting several bases belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, according to Iraqi media.

Iraqi media reported that the strikes targeted several areas in eastern and southern Iraq, killing 12 Iraqi civilians in the latest reported toll.

In separate statements issued early Wednesday, the Saudi defense ministry and the US Central Command announced the joint aggression, saying it targeted bases and weapons storage facilities belonging to the PMF, which serves as a coalition of anti-terror resistance groups.

Turki al-Maliki, spokesperson for the ministry, said the kingdom, in coordination with CENTCOM, had struck specific targets that he claimed had been involved in recent attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure.

CENTCOM also claimed the US and Saudi warplanes had targeted several logistical bases and weapons storage facilities in eastern Iraq.

According to the statement, the aggression was launched in response to, what CENTCOM called, more than 30 drone attacks allegedly launched over the past 72 hours from Iraqi territory against Saudi oil facilities in the kingdom’s Eastern Province and the capital Riyadh.

@E.Y.M