Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) — At least 68 individuals have been murdered in Iraq since the start of the regional war on February 28, according to a tally based on assertions from armed groups and authorities, showing the conflict’s expanding effect inside the nation.
Violence associated with the Iran-US-Israel confrontation has claimed the lives of Iraqi security forces, international soldiers, militia fighters, and civilians.
According to militia reports, 49 Iran-aligned militants were among those killed, and the casualties were caused by attacks blamed on US and Israeli forces.
A French soldier was also killed in Iraq’s Kurdistan area as a result of an Iran-linked drone assault, according to French authorities.
The US military reported that six crew members were killed when a refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, stressing that the event was not the result of hostile activity.
Iraq’s security forces have also sustained casualties.
An Iraqi intelligence officer was killed in a drone strike on the headquarters of the National Intelligence Service in Baghdad’s Mansour area, which officials characterized as a terrorist assault on a critical state institution.
Kurdish sources in northern Iraq said that at least five Iranian Kurdish fighters were killed in attacks attributed to Iran.
Additional events have increased the toll.
A security guard was killed in a drone assault on Erbil airport, while a civilian died after being wounded by rocket shrapnel during a strike southeast of Baghdad.
Earlier this week, four individuals were murdered when a residence in Baghdad was bombed, with initial reports claiming that two of the victims were Iranian consultants tied to Tehran-backed forces.
The rising deaths reflect Iraq’s increasingly complicated and hazardous security situation, as the nation becomes a crucial hub for spillover from the larger regional war.
