Iran-backed militias intensify attacks against US, Israel and allies
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<p>Iraq emerges as key front in new and often clandestine confrontation after launching dozens of attacks</p><p>Iran-backed militias around the Middle East are intensifying attacks against Israel, the US and their allies, in retaliation for the ongoing joint US-Israeli offensive against Tehran as the war draws in new armed actors, threatening wider chaos and violence.</p><p>Israel and the US have targeted Iran’s network of militant groups, with Iraq emerging as a ke
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Iran-backed militias intensify attacks against US, Israel and allies Iraq emerges as key front in new and often clandestine confrontation after launching dozens of attacks Iran-backed militias around the Middle East are intensifying attacks against Israel , the US and their allies, in retaliation for the ongoing joint US-Israeli offensive against Tehran as the war draws in new armed actors, threatening wider chaos and violence. Israel and the US have targeted Iran’s network of militant groups, with Iraq emerging as a key front in this new and often clandestine confrontation. Militia in Iraq have launched dozens of attacks since the war began on Saturday, targeting Israel and US bases in Jordan and Iraq itself. In recent days, they have also targeted the infrastructure of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups based in the self-governing Kurdish-dominated north of Iraq. Israel and the US are trying to degrade the capabilities of pro-Iranian militias in Iraq with airstrikes and special forces operations on the ground, according to analysts and well-informed former regional intelligence officials. Since the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq has been a proxy battleground between the US, its allies and Iran, but the country’s current leaders have sought to avoid becoming drawn into this new conflict. The militias are recruited among Iraq’s majority Shia community, and follow orders from senior officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps . On Tuesday, in a sign of an intensifying war of proxies across the region, officials in Washington suggested they were considering mobilising the opposition Iranian Kurds , possibly for an invasion of Iran’s north-west region. Several Iran-backed armed factions have claimed attacks on the US base at Erbil airport in Iraq’s north in recent days. Other drones and missiles have been launched from sites in Iran’s western desert at targets in Jordan; while militia in the south fired a missile into Kuwait. On Thursday, the militias issued a jo...
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