US airstrike kills 22 Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha'abi fighters near Syria border: Statement
Tehran (KNA) - Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, say a US airstrike on the Iraqi border with war-torn Syria has claimed the lives of nearly two dozen of its fighters and wounded a dozen others.
"At 10 p.m. [local time] last night a US aircraft hit a standing headquarters of the brigades 45 and 46 of the Hashd al-Sha'abi forces defending the border strip with Syria using two guided missiles which led to the martyrdom of 22 fighters and the injuries of 12 others," the paramilitary forces said in a statement on Monday.
The PMU, which located the air raid at "700 meters inside Syria," also, demanded "an explanation" on the deadly strike from the American forces present in the region. It added that such air raids, conducted by the US fighter jets, against its fighters had been "repeated throughout the years of" Washington's so-called war on "terrorism" in the Arab country.
Source: PressTV