middle east conflict
AT LEAST one person was killed and eight wounded in an overnight explosion at an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, officials said yesterday.
The blast hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, are stationed.
The Iraqi security forces’ media unit confirmed that its premises on the military base had been hit and that investigators had been sent to the site.
Air defence command reported “no drones or
