There were no immediate reports of possible casualties or damage from the attack.
It followed airstrikes by the US on Tuesday night that hit positions of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) that are part of the Iraqi army, engaged in anti-terror operations.
The US airstrikes hit PMU positions in the central province of Babil and the city of Al-Qaim on the border with Syria, leaving at least two PMU forces martyred.
The Iraqi government condemned the US airstrikes, saying that it would sue Washington at international bodies for violating Iraq's sovereignty.
The Iraqi Resistance also said following the airstrikes that it would start a new phase of anti-US and anti-Israel operations in retaliation for the war in Gaza, which the group along with many countries including Iran says is taking place with the direct support of the US.
Israel waged the Gaza war on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, carried out a surprise operation into the occupied territories in retaliation for the regime’s ceaseless atrocities against the Palestinian people over the past seven decades.
With the Israeli war continuing unabated and killing Palestinian civilians in the besieged territory, other resistance movements and groups in the region, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Yemen’s Ansarullah, and Iraq’s fighters launched military operations against US and Israeli interests in an effort to exert pressure on the regime to end its genocidal war.
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