🇮🇱🇮🇶 Israel built a secret military base in Iraq's western desert, with U.S. knowledge, to support strikes on Iran 1,000 miles away

A shepherd noticed the helicopters. Iraqi troops went to investigate. Israel bombed them.

One soldier got killed, two wounded. And the base… https://t.co/qhAru1K1Tp pic.twitter.com/vD7EEKOxFF

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 9, 2026
Israel built a secret military base in Iraq's western desert, with U.S. knowledge, to support strikes on Iran 1,000 miles away

A shepherd noticed the helicopters. Iraqi troops went to investigate. Israel bombed them.

One soldier got killed, two wounded. And the base stayed hidden.

Iraq filed a UN complaint blaming the U.S. Washington said it wasn't involved.

The outgoing Israeli Air Force chief had already hinted at it, "special missions which could ignite the imagination."

Israel ran a covert war from inside a country that wasn't part of it.

What else don't we know yet?

Source: WSJ .....