Airstrike wounds three PMF fighters north of Baghdad

BAGHDAD — Three Popular Mobilization Forces fighters were wounded Tuesday in an airstrike on a position in the Nabaai area north of Baghdad, the group said.

The PMF said the strike hit “one of the axes of the 12th Brigade under the Baghdad Belt Operations Command” at 11:30 a.m. Neither Israel nor the United States has claimed responsibility.

The strike follows a series of hits on PMF positions across Iraq. On Monday, six fighters were killed and four wounded in a strike on a PMF checkpoint in Qaim district, Anbar, near the Syrian border — an attack the group attributed to Israel. Yesterday, Kataib Hezbollah announced the death of its security chief Abu Ali al-Askari, one of the most prominent figures in Iraq’s militia landscape.

The PMF says airstrikes have hit its positions across seven governorates since the regional war began Feb. 28, killing dozens of fighters. Neither Israel nor the United States has publicly claimed responsibility for any of the strikes.