The warning came from a shepherd in a remote stretch of desert in southern Iraq who spotted unmarked military vehicles and “foreign forces” descending from helicopters.
Alarmed, Iraq’s security forces launched a reconnaissance mission to the area near the Saudi border. They soon came under fire, leaving one soldier dead and two others injured.
Iraq publicly condemned the “reprehensible and deplorable incident” but offered no details about the identity of the foreign forces, fuelling suspicions across the country.
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