Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has struck US and Israeli-backed “counter-revolutionary terrorist groups” operating in northern Iraq, according to Al Jazeera.

The groups were attempting “to smuggle a large consignment of sealed American weapons and ammunition into the country and were struck in Kurdistan Province”, the IRGC’s Hamzeh Sayyed al-Shuhada Command said in a statement shared by Iran’s Fars News Agency.

The command added that “a large quantity of arms and ammunition” was discovered and seized.

This aerial photograph shows vehicles belonging to the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) driving during a military operation along the desert areas of Al-Hadar and Al-Baaj on May 17, 2026, extending to the border provinces with Syria. — AFP
This aerial photograph shows vehicles belonging to the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) driving during a military operation along the desert areas of Al-Hadar and Al-Baaj on May 17, 2026, extending to the border provinces with Syria. — AFP

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