ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The bases of a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, brigade affiliated with Iraq's pro-Iran Kata'ib Hezbollah were struck three times on Sunday in Babil province, leaving one person injured, officials said.
A senior official from the PMF in Babil told Rudaw on Sunday, "This evening, the bases of the PMF's 45th Brigade in the Jurf al-Sakhr area were struck three times."
Jurf al-Sakhr, an area in Babil province, is strategically located between Sunni insurgent strongholds in Anbar province and the Shiite holy city of Karbala. The area hosts several PMF-affiliated group headquarters.
The 45th Brigade is part of Kata'ib Hezbollah, a Shiite armed group within Iraq's Islamic Resistance closely aligned with Iran.
According to the Babil crisis media cell, the strikes were carried out using drones and fighter jets, targeting multiple locations. "The targeted headquarters had been previously evacuated," the cell said in a statement, noting that one individual was injured.
A patch of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). File photo: Rudaw/screengrab
Iraq23/03/2026
PMF bases targeted three times in Babil province
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For its part, the PMF said in a statement that the medical department of its al-Jazeera Operations Command in Jurf al-Sakhr was hit in four separate strikes. "The injured individual was a member of the medical unit staff," the statement said, adding that the strike caused significant material damage to the site.
Earlier on Sunday, several PMF bases in the Akashat area southwest of Anbar province's al-Qaim district were also attacked, though no details about casualties or damage have been released.
Also on Sunday, a PMF base in western Mosul was targeted, resulting in the injury of four fighters "as a result of the bombardment," a security source in Nineveh province told Rudaw.
The attacks come amid continued security tensions in central and western Iraq, as the joint US-Israeli campaign against Iran has entered its fourth week, which triggered retaliatory drone and missile attacks from Tehran and its allied groups across the region.
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