ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said that seven fighters were injured in “two treacherous airstrikes” on Tuesday afternoon on their base in Salahaddin province, which “completely destroyed” the base. 

“At 5:50 pm on Tuesday, the headquarters of the 31st Brigade … in Baiji district of Salahaddin province was subjected to two treacherous airstrikes by the Zionist-American warplanes, resulting in seven injuries as an initial count,” the PMF said in a statement. 

It condemned the attack, which “completely destroyed the headquarters,” as part of a series of “brutal attacks” targeting the group. 

The attack follows an early Tuesday airstrike on the PMF that killed 15 members, including the group’s Anbar operations commander, in Habbaniyah. 

After that attack, the PMF said that it holds “the political forces fully responsible for confronting these repeated American violations and for taking clear and decisive stances that preserve the country's sovereignty and put an end to these dangerous transgressions.”

Many Iran-backed factions operating within the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have been officially incorporated into the Iraqi state security apparatus as part of the PMF.

Earlier on Tuesday, the PMF's 47th brigade were targeted in Babil's Jurf al-Nasr, and two members of the brigade were wounded. The PMF's 47th brigade belong to the salient pro-Iran Kataib Hezbollah group.

Since the start of the war in late February, American-Israeli strikes have targeted PMF positions across the country, while pro-Iran groups operating under the umbrella of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq have repeatedly attacked US interests in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.

The strikes have killed dozens of PMF members in recent weeks, including senior figures such as Kataib Hezbollah’s infamous security chief Abu Ali al-Askari.