Safety forces fireplace tear fuel to disperse a protest towards U.S. and Israeli assaults on Iran, at a bridge resulting in the fortified Inexperienced Zone the place the U.S. Embassy is positioned, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, on March 2, 2026.
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An air strike hit a navy base in southern Iraq housing the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah group on Tuesday (March 3, 2026), two sources from the armed faction mentioned.
The Jurf al-Nasr base, which serves as one of many fundamental bastions of the highly effective Tehran-backed group, has been struck a number of occasions for the reason that struggle within the West Asia broke out, beginning within the early hours of the U.S.-Israeli marketing campaign towards Iran.
The strikes have since expanded to different areas, and greater than 10 fighters, principally from Kataeb Hezbollah, have been killed throughout Iraq since Saturday.
A second supply from the group mentioned Tuesday’s strike solely triggered materials harm.
Iraq, which not too long ago regained a way of stability however has lengthy been a proxy battleground between the U.S. and Iran, mentioned it didn’t need to be dragged into the struggle. But it surely has not been spared.
A number of Iran-backed armed teams — generally known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, to which Kataeb Hezbollah additionally belongs — have mentioned they won’t keep “impartial” and have claimed dozens of drone assaults on U.S. bases.
A drone was shot down on Tuesday (March 3, 2026) night close to Baghdad Worldwide Airport, the Iraqi authorities’s safety media cell mentioned.
Hours earlier, safety forces introduced that they seized 9 rockets and a launchpad that have been set as much as goal the airport, which features a navy base that hosts American advisers and beforehand housed U.S.-led coalition troops.
For the reason that struggle began, the autonomous Kurdistan area, which hosts U.S. troops, has been the principle goal of drone assaults, nearly all of which have been intercepted by air defences.
An AFP correspondent reported {that a} strike on Tuesday (March 3, 2026) night time hit Kurdistan’s Sulaimaniyah, the second-largest metropolis within the autonomous area.
Kurdish safety forces mentioned {that a} drone struck an space close to a constructing that beforehand served as a United Nations workplace within the metropolis, with no casualties reported.
Loud bangs have been once more heard in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan area, AFP journalists reported.
Earlier within the day, drone strikes blamed on Iran hit a camp internet hosting Iranian Kurdish fighters and relations in Iraqi Kurdistan, a neighborhood official and an exiled opposition group instructed AFP.
AFP photographers on the scene reported harm to rooms used as lodgings for the camp’s hospital workers.
Iraq’s Kurdish area hosts camps and rear-bases operated by a number of Iranian Kurdish insurgent teams which have repeatedly confronted cross-border strikes from Iran, which has lengthy accused them of serving Western or Israeli pursuits.
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