Daesh terrorists attack Iraqi power station

An Iraqi power station in the holy city of Samarra has been struck by Katyusha rockets reportedly fired by Daesh terrorists. 

Iraq’s Ministry of Electricity announced on its Facebook page that the country’s Salah al-Din Power Station in the city had been targeted by rockets, causing severe damage to parts of the generating unit.

The Daesh terror group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Following the attack in Samarra, several Iraqi power towers along the electricity transfer line from the eastern Diyala province to east Baghdad were also damaged by explosions that resulted in shutting electric power on their path, IRNA reported on Monday, citing the Iraqi ministry.

According to the report, the attack was carried out near the Khan Bani Sa’ad area of the Baqubah district in the southwestern part of the Diyala province.

Meanwhile, the media relations office of Iraq’s Electrical Ministry also confirmed reports of the rocket attack on what it referred to as the Samarra thermal electric power station.

According to IRNA, the targeted power station had been inaugurated two weeks ago by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi during a visit to the Salahuddin province, accompanied by Electricity Minister Majed Mahdi Hantoush, Salahuddin Governor Ammar al-Jabr and the head of the Iraqi army’s joint chiefs of staff Lt. Gen. Abdulamir Rashid Yarallah.

Daesh terrorists have previously targeted the Iraqi power grid in numerous attacks in the country’s terror-ravaged provinces of Diyala, Kirkuk and Salahuddin.

The group has so far blown up to 20 electric power towers, including those along the critical Iran-Iraq power transfer line in the northeastern part of Diyala.

The late Sunday attacks on the Iraqi power grid coincided with the US military’s aerial bombardment of facilities along the Iraq-Syria border.

US claims staging airstrikes against Iraqi resistance groups along Syria border

The US claims staging airstrikes against targets allegedly belonging to Iraqi resistance groups along Iraq and Syria’s border.

The US Defense Department’s Press Secretary John Kirby announced the air raids in a Sunday statement, claiming that the “precision airstrikes” had targeted two locations in Syria and another in Iraq near their common border.

Kirby added that the attacks had taken place "at President Biden's direction,” and even claimed that the targeted facilities had been used by groups “that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq.”

Syria’s al-Ikhbariyah news channel reported that the air attacks had targeted the town of al-Bukamal in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, adding that “massive explosions” had shaken areas that lie along the common border.

The American presence in both countries is illegal.

The Iraqi parliament passed a law early last year, mandating the cancelation of Baghdad’s permit for the US-led forces’ presence in the country.

In the case of Syria, the US military has never asked Damascus for authorization to deploy its forces there.

The emergence of Daesh in both neighboring countries in 2014 was facilitated by the chaos resulting from the US-led intervention.

The Iraqi armed forces, backed by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi, have dislodged Daesh in the country, but the group’s remnants stage sporadic attacks in some areas.

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