A senior Iraqi lawmaker raps recent US military airstrikes on resistance groups on the Iraqi-Syrian border as an act of sheer folly.

Iraqi resistance groups condemn a recent US aerial assault against positions held by anti-terror Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) on the Syrian border, saying it will cost Washington dearly.

US military helicopters have conducted surveillance flights over the positions of Hashd al-Sha’abi forces in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.

The US says President Joe Biden ordered military airstrikes against facilities belonging to anti-terror resistance groups on the Iraqi-Syrian border.

A roadside bomb explosion hits a truck belonging to the US-led coalition forces in al-Qadisiyah province in central Iraq.

A roadside bomb explosion hits a truck belonging to the US-led coalition forces south of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units have thwarted an attack launched by the remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group on Jurf al-Sakhar region in the central Babil province.

At least 11 fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, have been killed in an ambush by Daesh terrorists north of the Iraqi capital, according to security sources.

Several Iraqi forces have apparently been killed in airstrikes against the positions of the Arab country’s military units in Jurf al-Sakhar, Babil province, local sources and media reports said.

‘Iraqis have proved that their country will not be submissive to anyone,’ said the PMU chief.