[[{"content_id":"2892","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"83","user_id":"2","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Iraqi Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forms Air Force Directorate amid Israeli airstrikes","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2019-09-06 12:30:13","content_summary":" \r\n\r\nIraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units have announced the formation of their own Air Force Directorate after government probes revealed that the Israeli regime could be behind several attacks on the bases of the volunteer forces.\r\n\r\n ","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":" \r\n\r\nIraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units have announced the formation of their own Air Force Directorate after government probes revealed that the Israeli regime could be behind several attacks on the bases of the volunteer forces.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe second-in-command of the Popular Mobilization Units, Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Al Ebrahim – better known by the nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, issued an administrative order on Thursday, declaring the decision and appointing Salah Mahdi Hantous as the directorate’s chief.\r\n\r\nThis grab shows the administrative order issued by the second-in-command of the Popular Mobilization Units, Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Al Ebrahim – better known by the nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, declaring the formation of the volunteer forces’ Air Force Directorate.\r\n\r\nLast week, Ahmad al-Assadi, spokesman of the Fatah Alliance, told journalists that the Baghdad government was preparing a complaint to the United Nations against Israel over attacks on the position of Popular Mobilization Units – commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“Some of the government investigations have reached a conclusion that the perpetrator behind some of the attacks is absolutely, certainly Israel,” he said, declining to provide details on the evidence.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAn Iraqi parliamentarian says Baghdad is preparing the complaint after finding Israel is "certainly" behind the attacks.\r\n\r\n“The government is preparing sufficient evidence and documents to complain to the [UN] Security Council. It won't submit a complaint against an unknown entity,” Assadi said.\r\n\r\nIraq's military said on August 26 it had launched an investigation into a purported Israeli strike that killed two Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters near the town of al-Qa’im close to the country's western border with Syria.\r\n\r\nPressTV-Hashd al-Sha’abi: Israel killed two fighters near Syria border\r\n\r\nIraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units says Israel was behind the recent deadly drone attack that killed two near the Syrian border.\r\n\r\nOn August 29, Mansour al-Baiji, a member of the State of Law political coalition in the Iraqi parliament, called on the Baghdad government to forge an alliance with the countries that have protracted disputes with the United States in order to strike Israel in the wake of recent airstrikes on Hashd al-Sha’abi forces.\r\n\r\n “The persistence of the Israeli regime and its targeting of military sites within our territory have not occurred unexpectedly, but rather under the auspices of the United States. They (Americans) opened the Iraqi airspace for them, and orchestrated the entire scenario. They are partners to the targeting of our territory,” the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency quoted him as saying in a statement.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAn Iraqi lawmaker urges the Baghdad government to forge an alliance against Israel over attacks on Hashd al-Sha’abi forces.\r\n\r\nHe called on Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, President Barham Salih and Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi to refrain from "condemnation and denunciation," and instead “strike up alliances with the great powers that have disputes with [the United States of] America and bolster relations with Russia and China in a bid to ensure international protection” for Iraq.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSayf al-Badr, the spokesman for the Iraqi Health Ministry, said in a statement that at least one person was killed and 29 others were wounded in a powerful explosion that rocked a military base in southern Baghdad on August 12.\r\n\r\nAn ammunition warehouse reportedly exploded inside a federal police military base, named Falcon, in Owerij area near the southern district of Doura.\r\n\r\nPressTV-Blasts hit Hashd al-Sha’abi position north of Iraq capital\r\n\r\nSeveral blasts have rocked a position of pro-government Hashd al-Sha’abi forces near Balad air base north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nArabic-language al-Ahad TV television network reported on July 19 that a drone had dropped explosives onto a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Units near the town of Amerli, located about 170 kilometers north of the capital, in the early hours of the day, killing at least one PMU fighter and injuring four others.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the Iraqi al-Etejah television network reported that an American B350 reconnaissance plane had flown over the area a few days earlier.\r\n\r\nThe Israeli regime has also a record of attacking the forces fighting Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIraqi voluntary Hashd al-Sha’abi forces have vowed a “suitable” response to the deadly strike on its fighters in eastern Syria.\r\n\r\nIn June 2018, Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters came under attack in Syria’s border town of al-Hari, in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, as they were chasing Daesh terrorists out of the area.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBoth the Syrian government and Hashd al-Sha’abi declared back then that the attack near the Iraqi-Syrian border had been deliberate and could only have been carried out by either Israel or the United States.","content_html":"

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Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Units have announced the formation of their own Air Force Directorate after government probes revealed that the Israeli regime could be\u00a0behind several attacks on the bases of the volunteer forces.<\/p>\n\n

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The second-in-command of the Popular Mobilization Units,\u00a0Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Al Ebrahim \u2013 better known by the nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, issued an administrative order on Thursday, declaring the decision and appointing Salah Mahdi Hantous as the directorate\u2019s chief.<\/p>\n\n

This grab shows the administrative order issued by the second-in-command of the Popular Mobilization Units, Jamal Jafaar Mohammed Al Ebrahim \u2013 better known by the nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, declaring the formation of the volunteer forces\u2019 Air Force Directorate.<\/p>\n\n

Last week, Ahmad al-Assadi, spokesman of the\u00a0Fatah Alliance, told journalists that the Baghdad government was preparing a complaint to the United Nations against Israel over attacks on the position of Popular Mobilization Units \u2013 commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cSome of the government investigations have reached a conclusion that the perpetrator behind some of the attacks is absolutely, certainly Israel,\u201d he said, declining to provide details on the evidence.<\/p>\n\n

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An Iraqi parliamentarian says Baghdad is preparing the complaint after finding Israel is \"certainly\" behind the attacks.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe government is preparing sufficient evidence and documents to complain to the [UN] Security Council. It won't submit a complaint against an unknown entity,\u201d Assadi said.<\/p>\n\n

Iraq's military said on August 26 it had launched an investigation into a purported Israeli strike that killed two Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi fighters near the town of al-Qa\u2019im close to the country's western border with Syria.<\/p>\n\n

PressTV-Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi: Israel killed two fighters near Syria border<\/p>\n\n

Iraq\u2019s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units says Israel was behind the recent deadly drone attack that killed two near the Syrian border.<\/p>\n\n

On August 29, Mansour al-Baiji, a member of the\u00a0State of Law political coalition in the Iraqi parliament, called on the Baghdad government to forge an alliance with the countries that have protracted disputes with the United States in order to strike Israel in the wake of recent airstrikes on Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forces.<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0\u201cThe persistence of the Israeli regime and its targeting of military sites within our territory have not occurred unexpectedly, but rather under the auspices of the United States. They (Americans) opened the Iraqi airspace for them, and orchestrated the entire scenario. They are partners to the targeting of our territory,\u201d the\u00a0Arabic service of Russia\u2019s Sputnik news agency\u00a0quoted him as saying in a statement.<\/p>\n\n

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An Iraqi lawmaker urges the Baghdad government to forge an alliance against Israel over attacks on Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forces.<\/p>\n\n

He called on Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, President Barham Salih and Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi\u00a0to refrain from \"condemnation and denunciation,\" and instead \u201cstrike up alliances with the great powers that have disputes with [the United States of] America and bolster relations with Russia and China in a bid to ensure international protection\u201d for Iraq.<\/p>\n\n

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Sayf al-Badr, the spokesman for\u00a0the Iraqi Health Ministry, said in a statement that at least one person was killed and 29 others were wounded in a powerful explosion that rocked a military base in southern Baghdad on August 12.<\/p>\n\n

An ammunition warehouse reportedly exploded inside a federal police military base, named Falcon, in Owerij area near the southern district of Doura.<\/p>\n\n

PressTV-Blasts hit Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi position north of Iraq capital<\/p>\n\n

Several blasts have rocked a position of pro-government Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forces near Balad air base north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n

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Arabic-language al-Ahad\u00a0TV television network reported on July 19 that a drone had dropped explosives onto a base belonging to\u00a0the Popular Mobilization Units near the town of Amerli, located about 170 kilometers north of the capital, in the early hours of the day, killing at least one PMU fighter and injuring four others.<\/p>\n\n

Additionally, the Iraqi al-Etejah television network reported that an American B350 reconnaissance plane had flown over the area a few days earlier.<\/p>\n\n

The Israeli regime has also a record of attacking the forces fighting Takfiri Daesh terrorists in Syria.<\/p>\n\n

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Iraqi voluntary Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forces have vowed a \u201csuitable\u201d response to the deadly strike on its fighters in eastern Syria.<\/p>\n\n

In June 2018, Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi fighters came under attack in Syria\u2019s border town of al-Hari, in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, as they were chasing Daesh terrorists out of the area.<\/p>\n\n

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Both the Syrian government and Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi declared back then that the attack near the Iraqi-Syrian border had been deliberate and could only have been carried out by either Israel or the United States.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2019-09-06 12:30:13","content_date_finish":"2019-09-06 12:30:13","content_date_register":"2019-09-06 12:31:53","content_date_last_edit":"2019-09-06 12:31:53","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3354717292","attach_date_register":"2019-09-06 12:31:52","attach_id":"6298","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"650","attach_img_height":"365","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"767","visit_date_last":"2024-11-25 02:59:20","attach_title":"Iraqi Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi forms Air Force Directorate amid Israeli airstrikes 2","node_title":"News,Ordinary","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":127, \"left\":66, \"right\":67}]","node_number":"2","allowable_node":"2"}]]