Overview
- General Saad Maan said a drone targeted the Iraqi National Intelligence Service headquarters in Baghdad’s Mansour district around 10 a.m. on March 21.
- An Iraqi security official reported the strike hit a telecommunications facility tied to the intelligence service that works with US advisers.
- Another drone reportedly filming the operation crashed into a private members sports club frequented by Iraqi elites and foreign diplomats.
- At least three drones targeted a US diplomatic and logistics site at Baghdad International Airport overnight, with one security official reporting a fire near the base.
- The Pentagon acknowledged on March 19 that US combat helicopters struck pro‑Iran groups in Iraq, as Hashed al‑Shaabi said one of its fighters was killed late March 20 in a northern airfield strike it blamed on the US and Israel.