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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Militia violence29 Jul, 16:39 BAGHDAD

Press reports quoted the Popular Mobilization Forces putting 20 dead and 32 wounded in a non-final tally from attacks on several of its sites in Iraqi provinces; no perpetrator is named in that reporting and no Iraqi actor claimed a response

WHAT HAPPENED

A press flash at 11:38 on 29 July quoted the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq stating "20 killed and 32 wounded in a non-final tally from attacks that targeted a number of our headquarters in Iraqi provinces"; the report names no perpetrator, no province and no ordnance. Within the following two hours, tracked militia channels supplied the attribution the reporting does not: Kataib Hezbollah's Al-Ittijah TV (official) described "an unjust Saudi-American aggression", Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) wrote "the American-Saudi terrorist aggression on Iraq", Sabereen News (KH — affiliated) wrote "the Wahhabi-American aggression", and Unit 10,000 (KH — affiliated) wrote "the treacherous Saudi-American aggression". No supplied militia source claims a retaliatory action of its own.

WATCH

Watch: an Iraqi government or military statement naming a perpetrator; independent reporting fixing the struck provinces; a claimed retaliatory strike under any Islamic Resistance in Iraq brand; a revised final casualty tally; any of these moves this file.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)عاجل | الحشد الشعبي في العراق: 20 قتيلا و32 مصابا في حصيلة غير نهائية لهجمات استهدفت عددا من مقارنا في محافظات عراقية تطبيق نبض
Published as evidence, not endorsement
Press reports quoted the Popular Mobilization Forces putting 20 dead and 32 wounded in a non-final tally from attacks on several of its sites in Iraqi provinces; no perpetrator is named in that reporting and no Iraqi actor claimed a response · Iraq Monitor