ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two people were killed and five others wounded in a series of missile strikes and air raids that hit multiple areas of Baghdad late on Tuesday, Iraq’s interior ministry said.
The incidents occurred around 11:00 pm and affected both sides of the capital — Karkh and Rusafa — causing casualties, property damage, and several fires.
In Karkh, a strike near a camp belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in the Taji area targeted the Iraqi army, wounding a captain and four security personnel who were nearby, according to the ministry. In a separate incident in the Amiriya district, a projectile hit a residential house, killing two civilians.
Elsewhere in Taji’s Sabaa al-Bour area, an unexploded projectile landed near a religious site, prompting the deployment of civil defense teams and explosives experts to safely handle the device.
On the Rusafa side, authorities reported that a civilian vehicle caught fire in the Jamila area, while another vehicle was burned on Maghrib Street.