Five advisers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in U.S.-Saudi airstrikes targeting Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq, sources familiar with the matter told MBN.
The advisers were killed at the Abu Muntadhar al-Muhammadawi camp in Iraq’s Diyala province, near the Iranian border, the sources said.
U.S. Central Command and Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defense said early Wednesday that they had carried out strikes against Iran-aligned groups in Iraq that had been directed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to target American forces and Saudi energy facilities.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News that the joint U.S.-Saudi strikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq had been carried out “in coordination” with the Iraqi government.
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said several of its official headquarters in different parts of the country had come under U.S. and Saudi attack. The PMF said preliminary reports indicated that several people had been killed and others wounded, in addition to damage to a number of its buildings and facilities.
Following the strikes, Iraqi sources told MBN that Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi had postponed a planned visit to Saudi Arabia that had been scheduled for Thursday.
According to one source, the Iraqi government decided to delay the trip after the overnight U.S.-Saudi strikes on PMF facilities.
A source familiar with the preparations for the visit also said the Iraqi delegation had already been scaled back the previous night, before the strikes took place, but did not provide a reason.
Another source said the reduction was likely due to delays in issuing visas for some members of the delegation.
Adapted and translated from the original Arabic.
