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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Militia violence29 Jul, 11:20 BAGHDAD

PMF reports 20 dead across seven provinces, blames US-Saudi strikes

The Popular Mobilization Forces media directorate stated at least 20 fighters were killed and 32 wounded in pre-dawn strikes on its official headquarters in seven provinces, attributing them to a joint American-Saudi attack, and Badr, KSS, Nujaba and Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina channels carried the figures without variation

WHAT HAPPENED

A statement of the General Media Directorate of the Popular Mobilization Forces, carried this morning by Al-Janoub TV (Harakat al-Jihad wal-Bina — official), Al-Ghadeer TV and Watan TV (Badr Organization — official and affiliated) and Al-Kornet al-Kata'ibi (KSS — affiliated), said "at least 20 members were martyred and 32 others wounded, in a non-final toll of the sinful attacks launched by the joint American-Saudi enemy" against official PMF headquarters in Baghdad, Wasit, Nineveh, Basra, Kirkuk, Karbala and Diyala, with varying material damage to premises, vehicles and military equipment, and committees still counting. Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) separately published a Brigade 30 command statement saying that at 03:20 the Fourth Regiment headquarters and the armour-combat directorate headquarters in the Nineveh Plain were hit by "an American-Saudi terrorist air assault carried out through seven air strikes", leaving eight dead from Brigade 30, two from the armour directorate and six wounded; iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) relayed the same unit-level toll and separately reported Brigade 24 casualties in Diyala with rescue teams still recovering victims, and a strike on the Diyala sector headquarters north of al-Khalis with material but no human losses. No supplied external or non-militia media reporting on the event was available in this window, so the attribution and the toll rest on militia and PMF institutional sources alone; the independent lines that would settle them are missing, which caps confidence.

WHY IT MATTERS

A double-digit death toll on official PMF premises in seven provinces is the largest attributed strike on the formation in this record and sets the ceiling for what the factions can demand of Baghdad in the coming days.

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View the original message (Arabic)بيان مديرية الإعلام العامة في هيئة الحشد الشعبي: استُشهد ما لا يقل عن (20) منتسبًا، وأُصيب (32) آخرون، في حصيلة غير نهائية للهجمات الآثمة التي شنّها العدو الأمريكي–السعودي المشترك، والتي استهدفت عدداً من مقرات هيئة الحشد الشعبي الرسمية في عدد من المحافظات العراقية. ووفقاً للمعلومات التي جُمعت، فقد…
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