The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, in a statement, announced that it has lost several of its own forces after seeking to be targeted at several of its bases.

The organization, after confirming that its bases were targeted in the early hours of Wednesday, the 7th of Mordad, without announcing the number of the dead and wounded, said that the damage incurred is being assessed.

The Popular Mobilization Forces claimed that its bases were targeted by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

Turki Al-Maliki, the spokesperson of the Saudi Ministry of Defense, late Tuesday night Riyadh time, said that air defense systems intercepted and destroyed several drones that had intended to attack oil facilities in the “Eastern Province” of the country.

He said that the drones were fired by “Iran-backed terrorist militias” from Iraqi soil.