Explosion hits weapons depot of Iran-backed militia in Iraq
Tuesday 10/September/2019 - 01:24 PM
A drone attack caused an explosion at a weapons
depot belonging to Iraq’s Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) in the
Anbar province on Tuesday; local media outlets reported citing a top Anbar
official.
The PMU has said it holds the US responsible for a
string of blasts in recent weeks in camps and weapons depots used by the mainly
Shiite paramilitary force.
In July, there was an attack on a weapons depot near
Baghdad, which the US confirmed was carried out by Israel, making it the first
known Israeli airstrike in Iraq since 1981. Israel has been escalating its
security campaign against Iranian presence in neighboring countries.
