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Friday, July 31, 2026
Iran receives bodies of Guards killed in US-Saudi strikes in Iraq
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Damaged structures at the site of an airstrike on a Popular Mobilization Forces base in Mosul, Iraq, July 29, 2026. (AP/Farid Abdulwahed)
Iranian state media says that the bodies of five members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed in joint US-Saudi strikes in Iraq this week had been returned.
“The bodies of five IRGC members killed in the recent US-Saudi attacks on Iraq were brought into the country through the Mehran border crossing,” in western Ilam province, the IRNA state news agency reports.
The United States and Saudi Arabia said Wednesday they had struck Iran-backed militants in Iraq in response to recent attacks on the Gulf kingdom.
The strikes targeted positions belonging to the Hashed al-Shaabi, an Iraqi armed coalition that includes several powerful pro-Iran groups, killing at least 20 militants, including the five Iranians.
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