US, Saudis attack Iran-backed groups in Iraq, threatening to intensify conflict

By Timour Azhari, Parisa Hafezi and Ahmed Tolba DUBAI/CAIRO, July 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. and Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, saying they were responsible for drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities, prompting Iran to warn that blaming it for such attacks was a "major miscalculat

CENTCOM says that the IRGC and its proxies must halt attacks or risk further military action.

The US military warned Iran to halt its attacks carried out directly or via its regional proxies against Washington’s assets in the Gulf or Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure to “avoid further military response”.

The US-Saudi strikes in eastern Iraq occurr just hours after the US military said its air defenses had averted a surprise Iranian attack on US troops in the region

The US and Saudi Arabia launched strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, saying they were responsible for drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities, prompting Iran to warn that blaming it for such attacks was a "major miscalculation".

US, Saudis attack Iran-backed groups in Iraq, threatening to intensify conflict  Reuters

US and Saudi warplanes carried out strikes on Tuesday against Iran-backed militants in Iraq who launched more than two dozen drone attacks in recent days, the US military said.

Saudi Arabia said the Iran-backed groups were responsible for drone attacks on its oil facilities.

The United States and Saudi Arabia attacked Iran-backed proxies in Iraq on Wednesday after Saudi air defense systems intercepted days of attacks launched from Iraq against the kingdom's petroleum facilities.

WASHINGTON: US and Saudi warplanes carried out strikes on Tuesday (Jul 28) against Iran-backed militants in Iraq who launched more than two dozen drone attacks in recent days, the US military said.The strikes targeted "Iran-aligned terrorists that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) directed to attack US force

The US military says it knocked down an Iranian missile barrage and worked with Saudi forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias used to launch attacks in recent days, shattering a brief pause in the fighting.

Riyadh says its targeted attacks were done in coordination with the US military.

The US Central Command said that the strikes were in response to the more than 30 aerial drone attacks directed by the Iran Guards in the last 72 hours.

US military says American and Saudi forces struck sites used by Iran-backed militias in Iraq to carry out attacks

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it expressed the “strongest condemnation of the reprehensible drone attacks carried out by Iran-backed militias operating in Iraq."

US drone shot down over Iraq’s Anbar, report says A US drone was shot down over Iraq's western Anbar province, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Monday, citing Iraqi media. IRIB shared images of what it said was the smouldering wreckage of the drone, which it said crashed inside a residential complex.

The kingdom is being dragged deeper into the wider regional conflict as it faces attacks from Iraq and Yemen.