Three Iran-backed Fighters Killed in Baghdad Drone Strike

This aerial photograph taken on January 1, 2024 shows a view of Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where the city's main boulevards on the eastern bank of the Tigris river converge at a roundabout. (Photo by Murtaja LATEEF / AFP)
This aerial photograph taken on January 1, 2024 shows a view of Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where the city's main boulevards on the eastern bank of the Tigris river converge at a roundabout. (Photo by Murtaja LATEEF / AFP)
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Three Iran-backed Fighters Killed in Baghdad Drone Strike

This aerial photograph taken on January 1, 2024 shows a view of Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where the city's main boulevards on the eastern bank of the Tigris river converge at a roundabout. (Photo by Murtaja LATEEF / AFP)
This aerial photograph taken on January 1, 2024 shows a view of Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where the city's main boulevards on the eastern bank of the Tigris river converge at a roundabout. (Photo by Murtaja LATEEF / AFP)

At least three fighters were killed and six others wounded in a drone strike on an Iran-backed militia headquarters in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, police and security sources told Reuters.

Police sources and eyewitnesses said at least two rockets struck a building used by al-Nujaba'a.

A group spokesman said three of the group's fighters were killed, including a local commander in al-Nujaba'a. The spokesman accused the United States of carrying out the attack.

Iraqi police and security sources said they had no further detail on who might have carried out the strike pending a government investigation.

Last month, the United States carried out retaliatory air strikes in Iraq after a drone attack by Iran-aligned militants that left one US service member in critical condition and wounded two others.

The US military has already come under attack at least 100 times in Iraq and Syria since the Israel-Hamas war began in October, usually with a mix of rockets and one-way attack drones.



Lebanon Asks Medical Centers to Make Room for People from Beirut Southern Suburbs

Residents check the damage in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Residents check the damage in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
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Lebanon Asks Medical Centers to Make Room for People from Beirut Southern Suburbs

Residents check the damage in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
Residents check the damage in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in Beirut's southern suburbs, on September 28, 2024. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Patients in hospitals in Beirut’s southern suburbs will be evacuated to medical centers in the capital and the nearby Mount Lebanon region, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Saturday.

In a statement carried by state news agency (NNA) , the ministry called on hospitals in Beirut and Mount Lebanon to stop receiving cases that can be delayed in order to receive patients evacuating from the hard-hit southern suburb of Dahiyeh.

The ministry’s decision came after a night of Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a predominantly Shiite district and a Hezbollah stronghold.

The ministry also called on hospitals and medical centers to care for ill people who fled Dahiyeh overnight as a result of the airstrikes.