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Strike kills two Iran-linked fighters in northwestern Iraq

By AFP 1 April 2026, 8:34 pm
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A strike in northwestern Iraq killed two fighters from the Iran-backed former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi on Wednesday, the alliance says, blaming the US and Israel.

An official with the group tells AFP there were “two dead and six wounded in a Zionist-American aggression” on a position in Tal Afar district in Nineveh Governorate, near the Syrian border.

The alliance is also known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), and is now part of Iraq’s regular armed forces, although it also contains pro-Iran factions.

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