Iran-backed group in Iraq claims fresh drone attacks on Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it carried out two attacks against Israeli military positions on Sunday morning.

The Shiite umbrella group of Iran-backed militias says it fired drones at a base in the Golan Heights and another base inside Israel.

There were no reports of drone strikes Sunday morning, though rocket sirens did sound in the Golan Heights at 11 a.m., where one of the bases was located.

The claimed attacks come a week after the group took responsibility for a drone strike on an Eilat naval base. Israel said that drone was “made in Iran” and the attack was “directed by Iran.”

Israel has been bracing for Iranian retaliation after it allegedly struck a consular building in Damascus last week, killing senior members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.