BAGHDAD, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's paramilitary Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said on Saturday that one of its members was killed and several others wounded in an airstrike in Salahuddin province.
A PMF statement said the attack on late Friday night targeted the headquarters of the PMF's 4th Battalion of the 52nd Brigade at the al-Haliwa Airport in the Tuz Khurmatu area in the eastern part of the province.
The PMF attributed the attack to "U.S.-Israeli aggression" targeting its facilities.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group for Iraq's pro-Iranian militias, said in a statement early Saturday that its fighters had carried out 27 operations over the past 24 hours.
The group claimed to have used "dozens of drones and missiles" against "enemy bases" in Iraq and the region, without providing further details regarding specific targets or casualties.
Separately, an unidentified drone crashed Saturday morning in the Mansour neighborhood in Iraq's capital Baghdad. An Interior Ministry source told Xinhua that an investigation was launched after the crash triggered a fire in the drone's wreckage, with no casualties reported.
Over the past few days, dozens of PMF members have been killed in what the group claimed as U.S.-Israeli operations. ■
