Thread by @HeshmatAlavi

UNCONFIRMED REPORT
A camp of #Iran-backed Shiite militias in Iraq's Salah-al-Din province, north of Baghdad, is on fire after what is being described as an attack.
Credit: @SufianSamarrai

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan #BREAKING
Mortar fire reported at the Al-Bakr Airbase, south of Balad, Iraq - via @SkyNewsArabia_B
This is also in Salah-al-Din province, close to where the #Iran-backed Shiite militia camp is reportedly on fire.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B Unconfirmed reports claim Israel is behind what is being described as an attack targeting the Al-Bakr Airbase.
This site is reportedly the largest in Salahadin Province & is used by #Iran's IRGC & Tehran-backed Shiite militias.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B Reports indcate #Iran had stationed its "Khordad" air defense system at the Al-Bakr airbase. The unit(s) have reportedly been destroyed.
If an Israeli attack did actually take place, it proves the Khordad system was no match.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B Quoting @IntelliTimes
"The combustion shows a black and white smoke that may indicate the combustion of liquid and solid fuels."

Missile depot?

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Al Arabiya cites sources describing the incident as an "airstrike" targeting the Al-Bakr airbase, north of Baghdad, resulting in many members of #Iran-backed Shiite militias (Iraqi Hezbollah) being killed and wounded.

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1163843856925908993

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Al Arabiya cites an "Iraqi military official and a source in a paramilitary group" (most likely the #Iran-backed Hashd al-Shabi - PMF/PMU) to report several explosions at an Iraqi Shiite militia position near the Al-Bakr air base in Balad, north of Baghdad.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes "The explosion is the latest in a series of mysterious blasts that have rocked (#Iran-linked) military bases and weapons depots around the country recently."
timesofisrael.com/explosion-rock…

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes Al Arabiya is citing Iranian media reporting that Iraqi intelligence suspects today's explosions in the Balad airbase north of Baghdad - targeting an arms depot of #Iran-backed Shiite militias - were the result of an airstrike.

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1163859802084298752

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes Images of the Balad air base north of Baghdad.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes #UPDATE
Video footage of the Balad airbase north of Baghdad, Iraq, where an #Iran-backed Iraqi Shiite militia camp became the target of massive explosions.

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes More videos showing the explosions at the Balad airbase north of Baghdad, Iraq.

(See thread for more details.)

@SufianSamarrai @almostjingo @drawandstrike @SecStudiesGrp @CarrollQuigley1 @GeorgWebb @eyad1949 @EmadAlmudaifer @rising_serpent @HNIJohnMiller @GaetaSusan @SkyNewsArabia_B @IntelliTimes Al Arabiya is reporting:
"3 missiles struck a weapons warehouse with Iranian missiles in a base north of Bagdhad"

Unconfirmed report:
53 medium & long range missiles, costing $50 mn & belonging to #Iran's IRGC Quds Force, were destroyed during an airstrike by Israeli F35s.