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[...]Iraq has been demanding the U.S. leave the country for over a decade. So much for respecting sovereignty:
A military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject, said: 'The explosion hit equipment, weapons and vehicles.
'The were explosions in the warehouses storing equipment.
'A fire is still raging and the search for the injured is continuing.'
There were conflicting reports as to who was responsible for the strike with some reports blaming Israel while others claimed it was a US attack.
The strike is believed to have been retaliation for a drone strike in Jordan in which three US service members were killed.
Hashed al-Shaabi, an alliance of mainly Shiite armed groups formed to fight the Islamic State group, is now a part of Iraq's security forces.
Factions within the group took part in months of rocket and drone attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq amid Israel's Gaza campaign but ceased to do so in February.
The attack on the pro-Iranian paramilitaries comes amid spiralling regional tensions over the war between Israel and Tehran-backed Palestinian militants Hamas.
On Friday, strikes blamed on Israel targeted a military base near Isfahan in Iran.
In its decision, consulted by AFP, the court declared void the summons issued by Brigitte Macron for invasion of privacy and image rights, considering that the facts she denounced should have been qualified of public defamation.
Brigitte Macron, her brother, and the three children of the First Lady had assigned two women on February 15, 2022, one presenting herself as a "medium," the other as an "independent journalist."
They asked the court to condemn these two women to pay them damages for having broadcast on the YouTube channel of the "medium", on December 10, 2021, "a perfectly eccentric thesis" according to which Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, does not would never have existed, but that his brother would have taken on this identity after changing sex.
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