Iraq base bombed
Air strike damages the Calso military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad.

Abu Fadak Al-Mohammedawi (C-R), the chief of staff of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) visits a man at a hospital in Hilla in the central province of Babylon after he was wounded in an overnight blast in an Iraqi military base housing a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, on April 20, 2024. The explosion hit the Kalsu military base in Babylon province south of Baghdad, where Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashed al-Shaabi, is stationed, according to an interior ministry source and a military official.
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