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Iran-backed armed group denies Iraq rocket attack on US interests | News

Two rockets attacked US diplomatic and military facilities overnight, Iraqi security forces said Sunday, when a powerful Iranian-backed armed group denied responsibility for a series of such attacks. Since October, US diplomats and troops across Iraq have been the target of approximately three dozen rocket attacks that Washington attributed to …

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Iraqi Forces Attack Iranian-backed Militiamen In Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces raided a fortress of a powerful Iranian-backed militia in southern Baghdad on Thursday and detained more than a dozen members of the group, government officials and paramilitary sources said. The raid was the most blatant action by Iraqi forces against a major Iranian-backed militia …

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