Islamic resistance in Iraq says its drones target Israeli base

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Army office on December 10, 2023, shows Iranian homemade Karrar drones in Tehran. (AFP)
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Updated 23 September 2024
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Islamic resistance in Iraq says its drones target Israeli base

  • Islamic Resistance in Iraq targets Israel with missiles and drones, source say
  • The attack caused no injuries, according to the Israeli military

BAGHDAD: Drones of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the Israeli military's Golani observation base in the “occupied Palestinian territories”, the pro-Iranian militant group said on Monday.

On Sunday, the group said it had launched a drone attack on a target in the Israeli-occupied Jordan Valley.
Iraqi Shi'ite armed factions, like other pro-Iranian groups, pledged to carry out attacks in solidarity with the Palestinians after Hamas militants launched its attack on Israel on Oct. 7 last year, triggering the war in Gaza.
Islamic Resistance in Iraq vowed to escalate its attacks.
In separate statements, the Israeli military said interceptors were launched towards an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been launched from Iraq and was identified crossing into Israeli territory from Syria.
No injuries were reported.

It came as regional tensions again soared nearly a year into the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, which has drawn in Iran-backed armed groups across the Middle East.
The Tehran-backed Hezbollah movement in Lebanon announced Sunday it had launched rockets at Israeli military industry sites “in an initial response” to attacks blamed on Israel that saw pagers and two-way radios used by the group explode across Lebanon earlier this week.
The Islamic Resistance of Iraq, a loose alliance of Iran-backed groups, has claimed several drone attacks targeting Israel in recent months, which have all been intercepted according to the Israeli military.
Last winter, the Islamic Resistance of Iraq had also claimed more than 175 rocket and drone attacks against United States troops in Iraq and Syria.
US forces carried out multiple retaliatory strikes against these militant factions in both countries.
The attacks on American troops have largely subsided in the past few months.


Turkish lawmakers to vote on report advancing PKK peace process 

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Turkish lawmakers to vote on report advancing PKK peace process 

  • The vote in ‌Ankara, proposes ‌making legal reforms ​in ‌parallel ⁠with the ​PKK laying ⁠down arms
ANKARA: A Turkish parliamentary commission was set to vote on Wednesday on adopting a draft report ​to facilitate the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which would advance a peace process meant to end a more than 40-year conflict. The roughly 60-page report, shared with reporters ahead of the vote in ‌Ankara, proposes ‌making legal reforms ​in ‌parallel ⁠with the ​PKK laying ⁠down arms, urging the judiciary to review legislation and comply with European Court of Human Rights and Constitutional Court rulings. Its core objectives are a “terrorism-free Turkiye” and strengthening democracy, said the draft, ⁠which presents a conditional legal framework ‌that prompted ‌some objections earlier in the ​week from opposition ‌parties.
A vote to back the ‌report would shift the peace process to the legislative theater, where President Tayyip Erdogan, Turkiye’s leader of more than two decades, has ‌an opportunity to end a bloody conflict between the PKK ⁠and ⁠the state that has sown deep political, economic and social discord at home, and spread violence across borders into Iraq and Syria.
The commission was formed in August 2025 to support a potential new phase in efforts to end the conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people and ​stymied economic ​development in Turkiye’s mainly Kurdish southeast.