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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Militia violence29 Jul, 14:31 BAGHDAD

Nujaba names Washington and Riyadh, demands bases closed

Harakat al-Nujaba issued a five-point statement on 29 July 2026 demanding the Iraqi government expel U.S. bases and cut all cooperation with Saudi Arabia, and stating that Washington's and Saudi Arabia's rulers will not defile Iraqi soil "without a heavy price paid from their interests and their security"

WHAT HAPPENED

On 29 July 2026, shortly after 11:20, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (Nujaba — official armed group channel), Noon Media (Nujaba — official social media channel) and Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official owned media) published a signed statement dated 14 Safar 1448 / 29 July 2026 saying that "at dawn today the hands of treachery and criminality extended, with their aircraft and their spiteful missiles, to strike the depths of Iraq's safe cities" in an aggression it attributes to "the brutal American occupation and the mercenary Saudi coalition." The statement declares that "the blood of our righteous martyrs will not go to waste and the masks have fallen forever under the weight of iron and fire," then issues five "decisive and non-negotiable" demands to the Iraqi government: expel the occupier's bases and headquarters, sever all forms of cooperation with "the criminal Saudi regime… the head of the snake and the financier of terrorism against Iraq," break its silence rather than issue condemnations that "tempt the aggressor," secure advanced air-defence systems and hold accountable whoever left Iraqi skies open, and fifthly that "we in Harakat al-Nujaba will not permit the tyrants of Washington and the Arabs of Saudi Arabia to defile the soil of Iraq without a heavy price paid from their interests and their security." The same full text was carried verbatim by Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official owned media), Sabereen News (KH — affiliated/aligned media) and Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated/aligned media); no other tracked faction issued a statement of its own on the strike in the collected window.

WATCH

Watch: a claim under any of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Ashab al-Kahf, Jaysh al-Ghadab, Saraya Awliya al-Dam or Rijal al-Bas al-Shadid names within 72 hours; a separately drafted condemnation from Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq or the Popular Mobilization leadership rather than a relay of the Nujaba text; any Iraqi government response to the five demands; independent reporting of the strikes and of the naming of Saudi Arabia — any of these moves this file.

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